Middle East

Seoul: South Korean prosecutors put the chairman of the world's third-largest pension fund under emergency arrest on Wednesday in a widening...

Ankara/Beirut: Turkey and Russia have prepared an agreement for a ceasefire in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that Ankara...

Moscow/Beirut: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted on Tuesday as saying that the Syrian government was consulting with the opposition ahead of...

Occupied Jerusalem: The occupied Jerusalem municipality, undeterred by a UN anti-settlement resolution, is due to consider on Wednesday requests for...

Baghdad: An Iraqi journalist was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from her home in Baghdad overnight, police and relatives said on Tuesday, prompting Prime...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Tuesday it would take three months to rout IS, as US-backed forces battle to dislodge the militants...

Beirut: One of IS's top commanders in Syria was probably killed in combat as the militants sought to stave off an advance by US-backed Syrian forces...

Occupied Jerusalem: Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its "shameful"...

Dubai: Iran said on Sunday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order that the American planemaker...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel summoned the ambassadors of 10 nations to occupied Jerusalem to reprimand them on Sunday and had more harsh words for the Obama...