Middle East

United Nations: Russia wants the UN Security Council to meet publicly on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria's eastern Ghouta, where...

Beirut/Ankara: Turkey warned on Wednesday that pro-Damascus forces would face "serious consequences" for entering Syria's Afrin region to help...

Algiers: Members of five teaching unions in Algeria went on strike this week over better pay and conditions, joining hundreds of colleagues who already...

Jerusalem: A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to turn state's witness in one of several corruption investigations...

Beirut: Residents of Syria's eastern Ghouta district said they were waiting their "turn to die" on Wednesday, after rockets and barrel bombs...

Beirut: Pro-government forces pounded Syria's eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people after the enclave's heaviest one-day death toll...

Ankara/Beirut: Pro-Syrian government forces entered Syria's northwestern Afrin region on Tuesday to help a Kurdish militia there fend off a Turkish...

United Nations: During a rare address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for an international...

Jerusalem: Israeli police revealed on Tuesday they had arrested the controlling shareholder and CEO of the country's biggest telecoms company, as well...

Cairo: An Egyptian court put former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh on a terrorism list on Tuesday, state news agency MENA reported,...