Middle East

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...

Cairo: Egypt's court of appeals on Saturday rejected an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons over a three-year jail sentence for...

Baghdad: Foreign special forces have been carrying out raids on an IS stronghold in northern Iraq ahead of an offensive planned later this year to retake...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli police killed in a shootout on Friday an Arab citizen wanted for a January 1 gun rampage in Tel Aviv, the security services...

Beirut: Syrian rebels said President Bashar Al Assad's opponents are under international pressure to make concessions that would prolong the conflict,...

Gaza: The Gaza Strip's struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its doors in...

Benghazi: Fires caused by fighting between IS militants and guards near Libya's biggest oil ports have spread to five oil storage tanks that were still...

Tunis: A senior member of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi's ruling party said on Wednesday he plans to break away and form a new political movement...