Middle East

Doha/Baghdad: Twenty-six Qataris and two Saudis, were freed on Friday after being kidnapped and held in Iraq for nearly a year and a half, Qatari officials...

Mosul: Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the...

Beirut: A local IS leader was killed on Saturday during a dawn raid by the Lebanese army in which troops arrested 10 suspected militants who had entered a...

Beirut: The last rebels in the town of Zabadani near Damascus have either departed for insurgent-held regions or accepted government rule, pro-government...

Luxor (Egypt): Egypt has unveiled a massive granite statue of Ramses II, the most powerful and celebrated of the ancient Pharaohs, after completing its...

Washington: The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was launching an inter-agency review of whether the lifting of sanctions against Iran was in the...

Luxor(Egypt): Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a nobleman from more than 3,000 years ago, the latest in a series of major discoveries of...

Beirut: A war monitor said air strikes, thought to be by planes from a U.S.-led military coalition, killed at least 23 people in two parts of the eastern...

Mosul (Iraq): Iraqi forces gained ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said on Monday, as the U.S.-backed...

Mosul (Iraq): Iraqi schoolgirl Manar Mahmoud is eager to resume classes after years of life under IS in Mosul, ignoring the nearby rattle of artillery...