Middle East

AMMAN: Russian war planes struck rebel-held areas north of Aleppo on Saturday as the army shelled the besieged old quarter in a major offensive, rebels and...

PARIS: Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic...

Moscow/Beirut: Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to further ramp up its campaign of air strikes, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as Moscow...

Cairo: A recently-emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility on Friday for an assassination attempt on a senior Egyptian...

Occupied Jerusalem: Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was on Friday laid to rest in a funeral attended by world leaders...

Concarneau (France): An Iraqi government-led offensive to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from IS militant group will start soon, France's...

Tunis: Tunisia's prime minister plans key talks with unions to hold down state sector wages and sees close to 3 per cent economic growth next year from...

Moscow: Russia is outraged by the threatening tone of the latest U.S. statement on Syria viewing it as tantamount to supporting terrorism, Russian Deputy...

Beirut: Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked a major Aleppo hospital out of service on Wednesday, hospital workers said, and ground forces intensified an...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Wednesday that Washington would send more US troops to help local forces in the battle to retake Mosul...