Middle East

Baghdad: As Iraqi forces prepare to attack IS in its de facto capital of Mosul, residents inside the city and others who have managed to escape expressed...

Beirut: Syrian insurgents who broke the siege of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Saturday in a significant territorial gain came under intense air attack from...

Gaza: A Palestinian representative of US-based charity World Vision denies Israeli allegations that he funnelled millions of dollars in aid money to Hamas...

Dubai: Iran has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist detained in 2010 when he returned home from the United States, after a court convicted him of spying...

Beirut: An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The...

Beirut: Rebel fighters pressed on with an intense offensive against a major military complex in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday, following...

Beirut: Syrian rebels stormed a major army artillery base in the northern city of Aleppo on Friday to try an end the siege of opposition-held areas but the...

Cairo: Egypt's former grand mufti Ali Gomaa, once one of the country's top religious authorities, survived an assassination attempt on Friday,...

Geneva: IS fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said...

Sydney: Australia said on Friday it was suspending funding for relief group World Vision's operations in the Palestinian Territories after allegations...