Middle East

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of U.S....

Qayyara West Airfield (Iraq): As the battle for Mosul moves to the narrow streets and densely packed houses of the Old City, U.S. artillery gunners and...

Homs (Syria)/Beurut: Rebels and their families began leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, state media and a Reuters witness...

Beirut: Two suicide bomb attacks killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens more in Damascus on Wednesday, state media reported, in the second such spate...

Tripoli: Armed groups aligned with a U.N.-backed government in Tripoli took over a compound occupied by a self-declared rival prime minister in heavy...

Mosul: Iraqi government forces battling IS for Mosul took control of a main bridge over the Tigris river on Wednesday and advanced towards the mosque,...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said the government offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from IS militants was in its final...

Mosul (Iraq): Iraqi government forces killed the IS commander of Mosul's Old City on Tuesday as the battle for the militants' last stronghold in...

Amman: A prominent Iraqi politician on Monday warned Washington the acceleration in a military campaign in western Mosul to drive out IS militants was...

Benghazi: East Libyan forces said they had regained control on Tuesday of the major oil ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider from a rival faction that seized...