Middle East

Hasaka (Syria): The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of...

Dubai: The Russian military said on Monday that its aircraft operating from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria had now completed their tasks,...

Diyarbakir: One soldier was killed and three police officers were wounded in a clash with Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey on Monday, security...

Jerusalem: Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and...

Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft...

Tunis: Tunisia’s prime minister-designate unveiled a new cabinet that retained the previous government’s security stewards while bringing in new faces...

Beirut: The older brother of a Syrian boy whose image, dazed and bloodied after an air strike, shocked people around the world, has died in Aleppo from...

TUNIS: Tunisian Prime Minister-designate Youssef Chahed named his new government on Saturday, appointing a former investment official as finance minister...

BEIRUT: Fighting between the Syrian army and Kurdish forces intensified late on Friday and into Saturday, creating the risk of yet another front opening in...

ISTANBUL: Turkey's parliament approved a reconciliation agreement signed with Israel in June which has brought to an end a six-year rift between the two...