Middle East

Sidon (Lebanon): A member of the Palestinian Fatah faction was killed in factional clashes at the Ain El Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Sunday,...

Amman: IS militants launched two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at least 12 dead in the fighting and many...

London: Hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi, seen as pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's main challenger in a May 19 election, is a close ally of Iran's...

Tanta/Cairo: At least 43 people were killed in bomb attacks on two Egyptian Coptic churches on Palm Sunday that included the seat of the Coptic Pope, the...

Cilvegou(Turkey): The Turkish Red Crescent does not expect a fresh wave of Syrian refugees to head for Turkey after the chemical attack in the northwestern...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for an impartial probe of this week's suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria and warned...

Baghdad: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday assured Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi of continued U.S. support to defeat IS, the Iraqi...

Beirut: Air strikes on Friday hit the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun, where a chemical attack killed scores of people this week, a witness in the rebel-held...

Palm Beach, Fla./Moscow: The United States on Friday fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack...

Paris: France is still seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria, the country's foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that...