Middle East

Mosul: One by one, hundreds of Mosul residents raised their shirts to prove they did not have suicide bombs strapped to their bodies, closely watched by...

Bartella (Iraq): Iraqi special forces battling to clear IS from eastern Mosul have killed nearly 1,000 militants but fighting has slowed as troops face a...

Beirut: The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a swathe of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to...

Beirut: The Syrian army and its allies drove rebels from a strategically important district of eastern Aleppo on Monday, the army and the Syrian Observatory...

Beirut: Hundreds of residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, sources said on Sunday, after an advance by the Syrian army and allied...

Hasan Sham Camp (Iraq): Pushing his way through dozens of people, Iraqi teacher Umar Salah carries four bags containing 15 blankets and pots full of food...

Erbil: Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by IS, have been discovered as...

Dubai: Iran's Defence Ministry said it plans to modernise the air force fleet but denied reports earlier on Saturday that it wanted to buy Russian...

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces faced fierce resistance on Saturday from IS militants defending a final strip of land in their former stronghold of Sirte,...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament approved a law on Saturday that will transform Popular Mobilisation forces, a coalition of militias that played a role in...