Middle East

Madaya (Syria): An aid convoy entered a besieged Syrian town on Monday where thousands are trapped and the United Nations says people are reported to have...

Mexico City: Mexico is formally starting extradition proceedings against captured drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, the government said late on...

Cairo: Arab League foreign ministers agreed at an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday to condemn the attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran and...

Baghdad: IS militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's...

Baghdad: Nine fighters from a militia battling IS were killed in northern Iraq when an Iraqi army aircraft fired at them in error, security and militia...

Beirut: A large Syrian rebel group has said the best way to push Damascus to a political settlement of the country's civil war was to give insurgents...

Beirut: An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a UN envoy visited Damascus to advance preparations...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi on Saturday pledged to stamp out corruption this year amid criticism from the nation's top cleric, Grand...

Dubai: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called on all Iranians to participate in next month's elections to parliament and to...

Cairo: Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier on Saturday while they were in their car in the Giza area, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's...