Middle East

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since US...

Baghdad: The United Nations said on Tuesday it is "racing against the clock" to prepare emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of endangered...

Moscow: Russia, Turkey and Iran on Tuesday were working on a statement to reaffirm a fragile ceasefire between Syrian warring parties that could agree to...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces have captured all of eastern Mosul, dislodging IS militants from the last pocket they held east of Tigris river, the defence ministry...

Dubai: Iranian rescuers have recovered four bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building in Tehran that collapsed last week after a fire, bringing the...

Cairo: Egyptians have been assured by their president that the country's battered economy will pick up in six months and they are coping...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel approved building permits on Sunday for hundreds of homes in three occupied East Jerusalem settlements in expectation that US...

Baghdad: IS blew up a landmark hotel in western Mosul on Friday in an apparent attempt to prevent advancing Iraqi forces from using it as a base in their...

Dubai: Iranian rescuers have removed three bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building in Tehran that collapsed after a fire, a fire department spokesman...

At least 75 people, including 45 firefighters, were injured when a blazing high-rise commercial building in downtown Tehran collapsed, Iranian state...