Middle East

Cairo: Swedish archaeologists have unearthed a dozen burial sites near the southern city of Aswan that date back almost 3,500 years to the New Kingdom era...

Paris: The head of IranAir took delivery in France on Wednesday of the first Western airliner under an international sanctions deal, calling it a...

Cairo: Annual consumer price inflation in Egypt's cities soared to a second straight eight-year high in December, hitting 23.3 per cent on the back of...

Erbil/Baghdad: Iraqi forces pushed IS militants back further in Mosul on Tuesday in a renewed effort to seize the northern city and deal a decisive blow to...

Dubai: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani, who...

Mosul: Iraqi special forces made further advances against IS in Mosul on Monday, pushing militants from another eastern district and edging closer to army...

Dubai: Iranian lawmakers approved plans on Monday to expand military spending to 5 per cent of the budget, including developing the country's long-range...

Beirut: A Syrian truce brokered by Russia and Turkey was under growing strain on Monday as rebels vowed to respond to government violations and President...

Cairo: Egypt, the world's largest wheat buyer, has appointed a new head to its agriculture quarantine agency, the body that last year threw the massive...