Middle East

Tunis/Italy: Militants attacked a checkpoint in a town in southwest Tunisia early on Sunday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, security...

Mosul: Iraqi forces have retaken around 30 per cent of west Mosul from IS militants, a commander of the elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said on...

Amman: A Jordanian soldier who was convicted of killing seven Israeli school girls two decades ago has been released from prison after serving his sentence,...

Moscow: A force of several dozen armed private security contractors from Russia operated until last month in a part of Libya that is under the control of...

Baghdad: IS has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that remain under its control, residents...

Beirut/ Damascus/Baghdad: A double bomb attack targeting pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a...

Occupied Jerusalem: U.S. President Donald Trump late on Friday invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House, in a first phone call between...

Beirut: Air strikes killed 14 civilians, including six children, on Thursday in countryside around Raqqa city in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for...

Beirut: Lebanon appointed General Joseph Aoun as army commander on Wednesday, replacing General Jean Kahwaji at the head of a force that has been guarantor...

Mosul/Sulaimaniya: Iraqi forces saw off an overnight IS counter-attack near Mosul's main government buildings and took full control on Wednesday of the...