Middle East

Baghdad: IS has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that remain under its control, residents...

Beirut/ Damascus/Baghdad: A double bomb attack targeting pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a...

Occupied Jerusalem: U.S. President Donald Trump late on Friday invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House, in a first phone call between...

Beirut: Air strikes killed 14 civilians, including six children, on Thursday in countryside around Raqqa city in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for...

Beirut: Lebanon appointed General Joseph Aoun as army commander on Wednesday, replacing General Jean Kahwaji at the head of a force that has been guarantor...

Mosul/Sulaimaniya: Iraqi forces saw off an overnight IS counter-attack near Mosul's main government buildings and took full control on Wednesday of the...

Beirut: Warplanes bombed a rebel-held area east of Damascus on Wednesday where Russia declared a ceasefire less than 24 hours earlier, the Syrian...

Rabat: A Moroccan lawmaker was shot and killed in front of his home on Tuesday night in Casablanca, according to a statement from his political party and...

Beirut: A U.S. Navy ship changed course towards Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels in the Gulf waters on Saturday, a guard commander was quoted as saying...