Middle East

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday including one the military said had tried to stab a...

Dubai: Iran has removed the core of its Arak heavy water nuclear reactor and filled it with cement, an informed source told the Fars news agency on...

Tunis: Tunisia's Ennahda party became the biggest party in parliament on Monday after more lawmakers in President Beji Caid Essebsi's party resigned...

Amman: Bombs dropped by suspected Russian warplanes killed at least 12 Syrian schoolchildren on Monday when they hit a classroom in a rebel-held town in...

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...