Middle East

Cairo: At least 44 people were killed and nearly 180 others injured after two trains collided near Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, officials...

Dubai: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani brought three women into the government on Wednesday, one day after being criticised on social media for submitting...

Cairo: Four Egyptian policeman were killed on Wednesday when gunmen fired at a patrol car in the northern Sinai city of Al Arish, state newspaper Al Ahram...

Tunis: Tunisian armed forces killed two militants including a senior commander in a mountain raid near the western border with Algeria late on Tuesday,...

Baghdad: The U.S-led coalition fighting IS militants denied responsibility on Tuesday for an attack near the Syrian border, which killed dozens of members...

Cairo: Two Egyptian policemen were killed and one wounded when a group of wanted criminals opened fire on security forces in a village north of Cairo on...

London: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented his cabinet to parliament for a vote of confidence on Tuesday, keeping in place the chief architect of...

Amman: The Syrian army intensified shelling and air strikes on the last rebel enclave in the Syrian capital on Monday, its heaviest bombardment in a...

Occupied Ramallah: Jordan's King Abdullah II met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday for the first time in...

Geneva: A member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the U.N. Security...