Middle East

Tehran: Germany's Siemens signed a contract to upgrade Iran's railway network on Monday, one of several deals agreed by German firms during a...

Occupied Ramallah: The Palestinian high court in occupied Ramallah, amending an earlier ruling, decided on Monday that municipal elections can be held, but...

Gaza: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is feeling a backlash at home over his attendance at the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who shared a...

Beirut: Syrian government and allied forces have advanced towards Aleppo, pursuing their week-old offensive to take the rebel-held part of the city after...

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces resumed a ground attack on Sunday against IS militants encircled in their former stronghold of Sirte, losing at least six of...

Moscow: Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in phone talks discussed normalisation of the situation in the Syrian...

AMMAN: Russian war planes struck rebel-held areas north of Aleppo on Saturday as the army shelled the besieged old quarter in a major offensive, rebels and...

PARIS: Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic...

Moscow/Beirut: Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to further ramp up its campaign of air strikes, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as Moscow...

Cairo: A recently-emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility on Friday for an assassination attempt on a senior Egyptian...