Middle East

Tripoli: Seven African migrants died, apparently from suffocation, after being locked for two days in a refrigerated truck that was abandoned by people...

Beirut: U.S.-backed Syrian militias said they seized a major dam on the Euphrates river from IS on Sunday, their latest gain as they push towards Raqqa...

Al Hoceima (Morocco): Moroccan authorities stifled a women's protest against official abuses and corruption on Saturday in a northern town where months...

Baghdad: Paramilitaries have captured the Iraqi town of Baaj from IS , further shrinking the northern region under militant control as part of a U.S.-backed...

Mosul( Iraq): Dozens of dead bodies of civilians killed while fleeing an IS-held neighbourhood in Mosul were lying on Saturday in a street close to the...

London: An explosion in a supermarket in the southern city of Shiraz injured 37 people and may have been caused by a gas leak, Iranian state media reported...

Beirut: A U.S.-backed operation by Syrian forces to capture IS's Syrian "capital" of Raqqa will start in the next "few days", the...

Benghazi (Libya): Libyan forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar said they had taken the strategic military base of Jufra on Saturday after...

Al Hoceima (Morocco): Several thousand people protested in a provincial northern Moroccan town to demand the authorities release an activist arrested for...