Middle East

Baghdad: IS has crushed a rebellion plot in Mosul, led by one of the group's commanders who aimed to switch sides and help deliver the group's Iraqi...

Muscat: Two out of three young individuals in the Arab world would prefer working in the public sector according to a survey. The eighth annual ASDA’A...

Beirut: Heavy air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 25 people on Wednesday, most of them at a market, a rescue service said,...

Baghdad/Paris: A booby-trapped drone launched by IS militants killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers earlier this month north...

Istanbul: IS militants in northern Syria are putting up "stiff resistance" to attacks by Turkish-backed rebel fighters, Turkey's military said...

Ankara: A planned US-backed operation to drive IS from the Iraqi city of Mosul could cause "blood and fire" in the region if not carefully...

Beirut: Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the...

RABAT: Morocco's King Mohammed on Monday named moderate extremist leader Abdelilah Benkirane as prime minister for a second term after his party won the...

Tripoli: Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by IS in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a...

Moscow: Russia will create a permanent naval base in Syria to expand its military footprint in its closest Middle East ally, a government official said on...