Middle East

Amman: Relative calm prevailed on Thursday in the Syrian city of Aleppo following a U.S.-Russian agreement to extend a cessation of hostilities that had...

Beirut: Dozens of people were killed in an intense day-long battle between Syrian rebels and government forces in western Aleppo that continued...

Washington: A US Navy SEAL killed by IS militants in northern Iraq on Tuesday was part of a "quick reaction force" called in after a firefight...

Tunis/Benghazi (Libya): By defiantly attempting to export their own oil and dispatching troops towards the centre of the country, Libya's eastern...

Nawaran (Iraq): When IS militant group swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants...

Stuttgart (Germany): IS militants killed a US serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday after blasting through Kurdish defences and overrunning a town in the...

Beirut/Moscow: Rebel fighters launched an assault in Syria's divided northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday and fired rockets on a hospital, in the latest...

Berlin: Climate change may render parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) uninhabitable, forcing the residents to leave the region which is home to...

Amman/Geneva: Washington and Moscow said on Monday they were working hard to extend a truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp...

Baghdad: Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, including pilgrims, police and medical sources said. The largest...