Middle East

Istanbul: Turkey's army chief signalled no let up in a Syria offensive Washington has criticised for targeting US-backed Kurdish fighters as well as...

Qayyara (Iraq): It gets darker earlier these days in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara, which IS militants abandoned about a week ago after setting fire to...

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces said they captured a residential neighbourhood in central Sirte from IS on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still...

BEIRUT: Rubbish is again accumulating on some Beirut streets after protesters blocked access to a dump, raising fears that last summer's garbage crisis,...

Beirut/Karkamis (Turkey): Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said...

Baghdad: More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was...

Ankara: Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility,...

Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia on Monday of ethnic cleansing in northern Syria, saying they were...

Karkamis (Turkey): Turkey's army and its allies thrust deeper into Syria on Sunday, seizing territory controlled by Kurdish-aligned forces on the fifth...

Occupied Jerusalem: Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Israeli defence minister and veteran politician who once served as his country's pointman with...