Middle East

Geneva: Syria's opposition will decide this week whether to attend forthcoming peace talks in Geneva and has complained to the United Nations that...

Gaza: A Gaza zoo owner is putting the last of his starving animals up for sale. Mohammad Oweida once hosted family and school outings at his zoo in Khan...

Tunis: Dozens of hardline fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday attacking army and police posts in a...

Rome/Tripoli: Two Italian hostages freed in Libya after two fellow captives were allegedly killed by IS militants were flown back to Italy on Sunday,...

Hilla (Iraq): A truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint south of Baghdad killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 70 on Sunday, medical and security...

Cairo: Egypt has appointed a new head of its agriculture quarantine authority, the ministry of agriculture said on Sunday, replacing Saad Moussa, who has...

Cairo: Egypt has accused exiled Muslim Brotherhood officials of conspiring with Hamas fighters to assassinate public prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year and...

Beirut: A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a partial truce in Syria in areas covered by the deal, a monitoring group said on Saturday,...

Khartoum: Prominent Sudanese politician Hassan Al Turabi, a veteran conservative who led the Popular Congress Party, has died at the age of 84, medical...

Beirut/Paris/London: Syrian government forces fired rockets close to a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human...