Middle East

Tel Esqof (Iraq): Hundreds of Iraqi Christians gathered on Sunday in a church damaged by IS north of Mosul, celebrating Easter there for the first time...

Thibaniya (Iraq): Flooding has made all bridges across the Tigris in and out of western Mosul impassable, cutting off aid supplies and escape routes for...

Cairo: A Cairo court acquitted on Sunday an Egyptian-American woman and seven others who worked with street children and had been detained for nearly three...

Dubai: Iran will ask "no one's permission" to build up its missile capability, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday, in what appeared to...

Alexandria (Egypt): Members of Egypt's Christian minority flocked to church on Friday but two church bomb attacks on Palm Sunday that killed 45 people...

Beirut: A bomb blast hit a bus convoy waiting to enter Aleppo on Saturday, killing and wounding dozens of people after an evacuation deal between...

Baghdad: An IS militant linked to the deadly 2015 attack on French weekly Charlie Hebdo could be still be alive, the Iraqi military said on...

Cairo: An Egyptian criminal court sentenced former interior minister Habib El Adly, who served under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, to seven years in jail...

London: With Yemen close to "breaking point" and nine million people on the brink of starvation, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on...

London: Iran's hardline ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad submitted his name on Wednesday for registration as a candidate for May's presidential...