Middle East

Tripoli: France's Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian was in Libya on Monday to meet rival political leaders and offer support for a deal aimed at...

Beirut: With a sudden lunge through extremist lines, the Syrian military and its allies on Monday came to within three kilometres of relieving the Euphrates...

Beirut: The Syrian army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in IS's last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of...

Paris: France suggested on Wednesday that the nuclear deal Iran struck with world powers in 2015 could be supplemented through "future...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces backed by paramilitaries began fighting house-by-house in the one town left to take from IS before they can declare complete victory...

Amman: Jordan will open its main border crossing with Iraq on Wednesday for the first time since 2015, now that Iraqi forces have gained control of the main...

Kirkik (Iraq): Iraq's oil-producing region of Kirkuk will vote in a referendum on Kurdish independence on September 25, its provisional council decided...

Beirut: IS militants and their families who had been inside an IS enclave on the Lebanon-Syria border reached an exchange point in eastern Syria on Tuesday...

Ankara: Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as "merely a dream" as Washington reviews a 2015...

Tripoli: Libya's coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants on Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of...