Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and bullets into the air in an effort to stop more supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from entering...

Beirut: Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province on Friday but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge...

Ankara: Iranians voted in a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday, with allies of reformist President Hassan Rouhani seeking to wrest more seats...

Tunis: Political divisions in Tunisia's ruling coalition risk undermining economic reforms and paralysing the government as it tries to revive the...

Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 79, has returned to Algiers after a brief visit to Geneva for medical checkups, his latest since a...

Beirut: Lebanese forces killed an IS leader on Thursday in an army operation in the mountainous border region with Syria, Lebanon's National News Agency...

Beirut: A hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed after being hit by a direct air strike, medical charity Medecins Sans...

Dubai: Iran's Supreme Leader accused the United States on Wednesday of scaring businesses away from Tehran and undermining a deal to lift international...

Moscow/Geneva: The United Nations said on Wednesday no date had been set for the next round of Syria peace talks, contradicting a report quoting...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian woman and her teenage brother on Wednesday, saying they were armed with knives and tried to carry...