Middle East

Damascus: When Jaafar's grandmother recognised him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's...

Cairo: An Egyptian human rights lawyer said on Monday he had launched an appeal against a court ruling which backed Cairo's proposed transfer of two Red...

Baghdad: U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flew into Iraq on Monday with the top U.S. military officer to get a first-hand...

Amman: U.S. backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by IS militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in the nearby town of...

Cairo: An Egyptian court ruled on Sunday that a judicial decision to block the transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia is void, judicial sources...

Cairo: At least 13 policemen and three civilians were wounded when a bomb exploded near a police training centre in the Nile Delta city of Tanta on Saturday...

Baghdad: Ayad Al Jumaili, the man believed to be the deputy of IS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, has been killed in an air strike, Iraqi State TV said on...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi left Cairo for Washington on Saturday where both sides will seek a renewed relationship after tensions over...

Geneva: The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt has passed 5 million for the first time in Syria's six year conflict,...

Jordan/Amman: After weeks of heightened unease over the stance of the United States under the new administration of President Donald Trump, Arab leaders...