Middle East

Amman/Beirut: The Syrian government widened its offensive to recover the southwest on Wednesday, extending it to an enclave held by IS-affiliated militants...

Amman/Beirut: President Bashar Al Assad is poised to snuff out the Syrian rebellion in the city where it began more than seven years ago, as rebels said on...

Amman: The Syrian army and allied troops laid siege to the rebel-held enclave in Deraa on Monday and were poised to gain complete control of the city where...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel charged a detained Turkish tourist on Sunday with helping smuggle money and packages to Palestinian group Hamas, in a case that...

Amman: Almost all the Syrians who fled an army offensive in the southwest to gather in a free trade zone at the Jordanian border have gone back into Syria,...

Nassib Border Crossing (Syria): Syrian government forces took up positions and raised state flags at the Nassib border crossing with Jordan on Saturday,...

Paris: The 2016 crash of a Paris-Cairo EgyptAir flight that killed all 66 people on board was likely caused by a cockpit fire, French investigators said,...

Kirkuk: Iraqi authorities began recounting votes on Tuesday from May's disputed parliamentary election, officials said, a step towards forming a new...

Dubai/Vienna: Iran said on Tuesday it could show it had nothing to do with an alleged plot to bomb an Iranian opposition meeting in France, as Austria said...

Dubai: Foreign ministers of Iran and the five world powers still party to its nuclear accord will meet in Vienna on Friday to discuss ways of maintaining...