Middle East

United Nations: The United States on Sunday called Russia's action in Syria "barbarism" not counter-terrorism while Moscow's UN envoy said...

New York: Libya's prime minister called for a national reconciliation initiative to repair the divisions in a fragmented country reeling from the...

Amman: Warplanes bombed a strategic camp on the northern edge of Aleppo on Sunday as Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, battled rebels for control...

Amman: A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after...

New York: John Kerry had heard enough. After last week's bombing of a UN aid convoy in Syria dealt a death blow to a ceasefire deal in which he had...

Beirut: The Syrian army and allied militia seized ground north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening a siege of the city's rebel-held east as it came under...

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a revival of a ceasefire in Syria depends on all sides involved and not only on "Russia's...

Beirut: Warplanes bombed Aleppo on Friday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive...

Cairo: At least 133 bodies had been recovered by Friday from a boat carrying hundreds of migrants that capsized off Egypt two days earlier, Egyptian...

Istanbul: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more weapons to Kurdish fighters in northern Syria this week, saying...