Middle East

LAUSANNE (Switzerland): Syria talks with a fresh format but few fresh ideas opened in the Swiss lakeside town of Lausanne on Saturday, with US Secretary of...

DUBAI: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Saturday for more transparency in elections due in May following allegations of electoral...

BAGHDAD: Around 55 people were killed in Iraq in attacks on Saturday that targeted a majority sect gathering, a police check-point and the family of a...

SIRTE (Libya): Libyan pro-government forces have advanced into another area in their battle to liberate Sirte from IS in fighting that killed 14 of their...

Muscat: ​US military launched cruise missile strikes on Thursday to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi forces,...

Beirut: A senior rebel commander said on Friday that Syrian government forces would never be able to capture Aleppo's opposition-held east, more than...

Baghdad: IS has crushed a rebellion plot in Mosul, led by one of the group's commanders who aimed to switch sides and help deliver the group's Iraqi...

Muscat: Two out of three young individuals in the Arab world would prefer working in the public sector according to a survey. The eighth annual ASDA’A...

Beirut: Heavy air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 25 people on Wednesday, most of them at a market, a rescue service said,...

Baghdad/Paris: A booby-trapped drone launched by IS militants killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers earlier this month north...