Middle East

Beirut: IS militants launched their biggest attack in months on government-held areas of the Syrian city of Deir Al Zor on Saturday, leaving dozens of dead,...

Near Mosul: Civilians and soldiers wounded as Iraqi forces attempt to retake Mosul from IS are receiving treatment in a high-tech field hospital about 20km...

Vatican City: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed the Middle East with Pope Francis on Saturday and said prospects for peace there will suffer if...

Mosul: Iraqi forces made new advances against IS in eastern Mosul and fought the militants in areas near the Tigris river on Wednesday, military officials...

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...