Middle East

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said on Saturday that the military's economic activity accounted for no more than 2 per cent of the...

Ankara: Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 IS militants in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense...

Bartella (Iraq): Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from IS, celebrating Christmas for the first time...

Aleppo: Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo and air strikes resumed around the city on Friday as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies said the...

Ankara: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there is "no doubt" that the assassin who gunned down the Russian ambassador in Ankara...

Geneva: Vehicles were still streaming out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday morning under U.N. monitoring after an evacuation overnight, a United Nations...

Beirut: Buses carrying Syrian civilians and fighters began leaving the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Wednesday after being stalled for a day, aid...

Istanbul: A seven-year-old Syrian girl who drew global attention with her Twitter updates from besieged Aleppo met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at his...

Occupied Jerusalem: Disgraced former president Moshe Katsav was released on parole on Wednesday after serving five years of a seven-year jail sentence for...

Koy Sanjaq (Iraq): An Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group accused Iran on Wednesday of a bombing that killed five of its fighters and an Iraqi Kurdish...