Middle East

Beirut: Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra on several fronts on Saturday with support from air strikes and artillery bombardment, state media...

Baghdad: Powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al Sadr warned political party leaders on Friday they would face street protests if they obstruct a government...

Arbil: Iraqi forces made slow progress against IS in the north of the country on Friday in the second day of an offensive touted as the beginning of a...

Cairo: In Cairo's Imbaba, strongman Karim Hussein pulls trucks with his teeth, swallows nails and casually steps on mounds of broken glass, offering one...

Washington: IS miitant group's top finance officer and other senior leaders were likely killed this week in a major offensive targeting the militant...

Beirut: Syrian soldiers recaptured the old citadel of Palmyra overlooking the city's ancient ruins on Friday, state media and a monitoring group said,...

Rome: Italy wants the unvarnished truth about the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the prime minister's office said on Friday, after Egyptian...

Moscow/Geneva: US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to press President Vladimir Putin on how Russia sees a future political transition in Syria and...

Tripoli: The UN envoy to Libya said on Wednesday he had been forced to cancel a flight to Tripoli because he had not been granted landing rights by the...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi named 10 new ministers, including the finance and investment portfolios, in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday meant to...