Middle East

East of Mosul/Baghdad: Advancing Iraq troops broke through IS defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgent...

Beirut: The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum. Saad Al Hariri is...

South of Mosul: Iraqi troops and security forces edged closer to Mosul on two southern fronts on Sunday but a leader of the militias newly participating in...

Amman/Beirut: Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the...

Tripoli: When the doors of a Tripoli bank open, hundreds of frantic customers surge forward, desperate for money they have been waiting weeks or months to...

Al Shura/Baghdad: Iraqi militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around...

Geneva/Baghdad: IS forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as "human...

Beirut: Syrian rebels including hadrliners counter-attacked the army and its allies on Friday aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo,...

Beirut: Air strikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, in a village in Syria's rebel-held Idlib...

Qayyara/Baghdad: IS fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern...