Middle East

Beirut: More than 150 civilians, mostly women and children, left besieged eastern parts of Aleppo through a safety zone that Moscow and its Syrian ally say...

Washington: The United States said on Friday it would allow foreign airlines to fly US-made aircraft to Iran, providing greater assurance to aviation...

Benghazi (Libya): Libya's UN-backed government has signed a deal with an armed brigade controlling the major Ras Lanuf and Es Sider oil ports to end a...

Washington/Beirut: The United States is trying to determine whether a Russian plan for a humanitarian operation in Syria is sincere, Secretary of State John...

Geneva: Up to 1 million people could be driven from their homes in northern Iraq soon as fighting intensifies in a government offensive to retake Mosul from...

Dubai: Iran will hold its next presidential election in May 2017, state news agencies said on Wednesday, a vote in which President Hassan Rouhani may seek a...

Beirut: A large truck bomb blast claimed by IS killed nearly 50 people and wounded scores more in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish...

Philadelphia: Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party's White House nomination, coming back from a stinging defeat in her first presidential run in...

Beirut: Two bomb blasts claimed by IS hit the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish border on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and...

Vientiane/Geneva: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he hoped to announce in early August details of a US plan for closer military cooperation...