Middle East

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli soldiers on Friday shot and killed an apparently unarmed Palestinian who ran towards their position in a Palestinian village in...

Tripoli: Libya's UN-backed government said on Wednesday it would continue seeking approval from the parliament based in the east of the country, despite...

Karkamis/Anakra (Turkey): Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of IS militants group's last strongholds on...

Istanbul: Turkey expects to swiftly eliminate the threat from IS after launching an operation with U.S.-led coalition forces to sweep militants out of the...

Geneva: Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in and around Mosul could be uprooted by the military assault to retake city from IS, the UN refugee agency UNHCR...

HASAKA (Syria)/BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the...

Nablus (occupied West Bank): Nablus, the second largest city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was gripped by violent protests on Tuesday after the death...

Hebron (occupied West Bank): At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank are suffering from severe water...

Cairo: A fact-finding commission investigating corruption in Egypt's domestic wheat supplies has delivered its final report to parliament, a lawmaker...

Benghazi: Opponents of Libya's UN-backed government voted on Monday against a motion of confidence in the Tripoli-based administration, in a rare...