Middle East

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...

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

Riyadh:Tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in the centre of the capital on Saturday to show support for the Houthi-led bloc as the head of the group's...

Cairo: A few years ago Imad would not have imagined himself queuing in the Cairo sun for a weekly ration of subsidised baby milk. But rising prices mean his...

Rome: Three Syrian children drowned along with three adults when a wooden boat trying to carry war refugees to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, a...

Beirut/Geneva: The main umbrella group for the Syrian opposition on Friday cautiously welcomed a proposal for a weekly pause in fighting in Aleppo to allow...

Beirut: Syrian Kurdish authorities evacuated thousands of civilians from Kurdish areas of a city in northeastern Syria on a second day of government air...

Occupied Ramallah: Two Palestinian men sought for possession of weapons and other offences were killed in a gun battle with Palestinian police in an arrest...