Middle East

Cairo: Egypt's cabinet approved the 2017/18 budget on Wednesday, targeting a 9.1 per cent deficit for the year, Finance Minister Amr El Garhy said. The...

Mosul: Iraqi special forces and police fought IS militants to edge closer to the Al Nuri mosque in western Mosul on Wednesday, tightening their control...

Dead Sea, (Jordan): Arab leaders arriving in Jordan for a summit on Wednesday are seeking common ground to reaffirm their commitment to a Palestinian state,...

Tabqa Dam(Syria): Syrian engineers worked on Tuesday to open spillways and ease pressure on a major dam across the Euphrates River, amid a pause in a...

Geneva: About 40,000 people, mainly women and children, have been displaced by fighting northwest of Hama city in Syria, the United Nations said on...

Mosul: Investigators are in the Iraqi city of Mosul to determine whether a U.S.-led coalition strike or IS-rigged explosives caused a blast that destroyed...

Moscow: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Reuters on Tuesday that Russia could use Iranian military bases to launch air strikes against...

Aden: At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing and gun attack by suspected Al Qaeda militants on a local government compound in southern Yemen on...

Mosul(Iraq): Iraqi forces said they launched new assaults in Mosul's Old City on Monday after more than two weeks of only small advances and a high...

Beirut: The U.S.-led coalition said on Monday it saw no imminent danger to a major hydroelectric dam that allied Syrian militias are fighting to take from...