Middle East

Cairo: Egypt has halted fish exports after a surge in sales to foreign markets following last November's currency devaluation led to supply shortages...

Paris: French intelligence has concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel gave a one-year work visa to a Human Rights Watch researcher on Wednesday after initially denying him a permit and accusing the...

Mosul: Iraqi forces are using siege and stealth tactics to drive IS militants out of Mosul's Old City, an Iraqi general said, and minimise harm to...

Occupied Ramallah: Palestinian leaders said on Tuesday Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to...

Beirut: Syrian or Russian air strikes killed more than a dozen people and severely damaged a hospital in and around a town in rebel-held Idlib province on...

Erbil (Iraq): High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles,...

Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed and slightly wounded four people along Tel Aviv's beachfront on Sunday and was arrested, police said,...

Mosul (Iraq): Heavy two-way traffic of carts carrying children, clothes, and the elderly crowded the main Baghdad-Mosul road on Sunday as hundreds of Iraqis...

Mosul: Three policemen were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack south of Mosul, the northern Iraqi city where IS is fighting off a U.S.-backed offensive,...