Middle East

Baghdad: Radioactive material that went missing in Iraq has been found dumped near a petrol station in the southern town of Zubair, officials said on...

Vatican City: Pope Francis on Sunday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's military chief on Sunday after the general drew fire for saying he would not...

Cairo: Egypt's prosecutor referred a policeman who shot dead a driver in a busy street to trial for murder, state news agency MENA reported on Sunday,...

Beirut: Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees...

Belgrade/Tripoli: Two Serbian Embassy staff members abducted in Libya in November were among nearly 50 people killed on Friday in US air strikes on a...

Tripoli: US warplanes carried out air strikes against IS-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting...

Tunis: Tunisia is preparing to issue euro-denominated bonds worth as much as $1.12 billion (1 billion euros) within a few weeks, a government official said...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in separate incidents on Friday in occupied Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank,...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi told the interior minister on Friday to hold any policeman who attacks citizens to account and to submit...