Middle East

Cairo: Egypt expects to cut its trade deficit by $11-$12 billion in 2016 as part of efforts to ease an acute dollar shortage and is encouraging domestic...

Cairo: Edita Food Industries, Egypt's maker of Twinkies, said on Monday its sweet factory in Beni Suef had been shut for three days after authorities...

Beirut: The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday the door to electing a president was "wide open"...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday the choice offered to voters in the US presidential election was between "bad and worse"...

Beirut: The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning...

Erbil: Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from IS militant group on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive...

Algiers: The long-standing chief of Algeria's ruling FLN party Amar Saadani has resigned just weeks after making accusations that a retired spy chief...

Erbil (Iraq): Iraqi forces have advanced to 5km (3 miles) from Mosul in an offensive against IS' last major Iraq stronghold and there are signs of...

Cairo: Laila El Sayed spent her afternoon searching grocery stores in Cairo’s bustling Dokki district on the banks of the Nile River for one thing:...

ANKARA/BEIRUT: Turkish-backed forces will press on to the IS-held town of Al Bab in Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, emphasising...