Middle East

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...

Geneva: Fighting between rival people-smuggling gangs on Libya's Mediterranean coast has killed 22 people, the International Organization for Migration...

Mosul: Iraqi government forces fighting to drive IS from western Mosul on Tuesday recaptured the main government building, the central bank branch and the...

Qayyara West Airfield: A U.S. general in the international coalition in Iraq says that IS militants defending western Mosul are disorganised and some...

Beirut: U.S.-backed Syrian militias cut the last main road out of IS-held Raqqa on Monday, severing the highway between the group's de facto capital and...