Middle East

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces said they captured a residential neighbourhood in central Sirte from IS on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still...

BEIRUT: Rubbish is again accumulating on some Beirut streets after protesters blocked access to a dump, raising fears that last summer's garbage crisis,...

Beirut/Karkamis (Turkey): Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said...

Baghdad: More than 70 tents were destroyed by fire on Monday in the refugee camp of Yahayawa, near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but no one was...

Ankara: Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility,...

Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia on Monday of ethnic cleansing in northern Syria, saying they were...

Karkamis (Turkey): Turkey's army and its allies thrust deeper into Syria on Sunday, seizing territory controlled by Kurdish-aligned forces on the fifth...

Occupied Jerusalem: Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Israeli defence minister and veteran politician who once served as his country's pointman with...

Baghdad: The Iraqi government officially asked Saudi Arabia to replace its first ambassador to Baghdad in more than a quarter of a century, accusing him of...

Tripoli: A member of the leadership of Libya's UN-backed government who is close to powerful rival factions in the east of the country has said he will...