Middle East

Mosul/Baghdad: Iraqi special forces closed in on the Tigris river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday, advancing in parallel with other troops and...

Beirut: A fuel truck exploded in the busy centre of a rebel-held town near Syria's border with Turkey on Saturday, killing dozens of people and wounding...

Beirut: Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond...

Near Mosul/Erbil: More than 2,000 Iraqis a day are fleeing Mosul, several hundred more each day than before US-led coalition forces began a new phase of...

Occupied Jerusalem: A young Israeli soldier who shot dead a Palestinian assailant lying wounded and motionless on the ground in the occupied West Bank was...

Hassan Sham (Iraq): They wait for nightfall before attempting the perilous escape across bombed-out bridges and front lines between IS militants and Iraqi...

Rome: Eastern Libya's dominant military figure has no plans to resume talks with his UN-backed rival in the west, according to comments in an interview...

Occupied Jerusalem: Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the occupied West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian...

Occupied Ramallah: Foreign financial support to the Palestinian budget is running at about half the forecast level, the Palestinian prime minister told...

Occupied Jerusalem: Police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in occupied Jerusalem on Monday on suspicion...