Middle East

Baghdad/Bartella: US-backed Iraqi forces moved closer on Wednesday to a town south of Mosul where aid groups and regional officials say IS has executed...

Moscow: Russia on Wednesday told anti-government rebels holed up in Syria's Aleppo to leave by Friday evening, signalling it would extend a moratorium...

Rabat: Moroccan authorities have charged 11 people over the death of a fishmonger who was crushed in a garbage truck while trying to stop police from...

Beirut: Iran's judiciary has issued verdicts for 20 people accused of storming Saudi diplomatic missions in January and will announce them in the near...

Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday a Western failure to rein in violent hardliners in Syria had indefinitely delayed the...

East of Mosul: Iraqi forces battled IS fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul on Tuesday as the two-week campaign to recapture the militants' last main...

Cairo: Business is grinding to a near-halt in Egypt as companies struggle to keep pace with a rapid slide in the black market value of the pound. Factories...

Bashiqa (Iraq): Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where IS...

Amman: The Syrian army and its allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held eastern Ghouta area of Damascus, tightening their grip on the...

London/Sirte (Libya): Western and some Middle Eastern powers expressed support on Monday for Libya's UN-brokered unity government and Prime Minister...