Middle East

Baghdad: Powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr has ordered his armed followers to withdraw from the streets of Baghdad districts that have been hit by...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched talks on Wednesday with far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman on recruiting him into...

Rome: Italy and Libya discussed late on Tuesday renewing a 2008 accord under which Italy pledged billions of dollars in investments in return for energy...

Tripoli: Libyan military forces said on Tuesday they had recaptured one of the main checkpoints south of the city of Misrata from IS, reversing some of the...

Vienna/Beirut: Major power foreign ministers failed to agree a new date to resume Syrian peace talks at a meeting on Tuesday, and the opposition said it...

Vienna: Rival factions have agreed in principle to have one oil organisation for strife-torn Libya, the foreign minister in the new UN-backed, national...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi promised Israel on Tuesday warmer ties if it accepts efforts to resume peace talks with the Palestinians,...

Paris/Vienna: French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday an international conference due in late May in Paris to help relaunch peace talks between...

Baghdad: At least 72 people were killed and more than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, extending the...

Vienna: Major power talks on Syria aim to restore a truce across the country and get aid into besieged areas to encourage opposition groups to return to...