Middle East

Dubai: Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died on Sunday at the age of 82, state media reported, a big blow to moderates and reformists...

Paris/Dubai: Airbus said on Sunday Iran's state airline IranAir had accepted its first new jet, marking a key step in opening up trade under a nuclear...

Cairo: Egyptians have been assured by their president that the country's battered economy will pick up in six months and they are coping...

Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four...

Tel Aviv: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under police investigation for suspected corruption, was caught on tape negotiating mutual benefits with an...

Baghdad/Mosul: Suicide bombs at two marketplaces in Baghdad, one of them claimed by IS, killed at least 20 people on Sunday, police and medics said, the...

Mosul/Baghdad: Iraqi special forces closed in on the Tigris river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday, advancing in parallel with other troops and...

Beirut: A fuel truck exploded in the busy centre of a rebel-held town near Syria's border with Turkey on Saturday, killing dozens of people and wounding...

Beirut: Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond...

Near Mosul/Erbil: More than 2,000 Iraqis a day are fleeing Mosul, several hundred more each day than before US-led coalition forces began a new phase of...