Middle East

Beirut: IS militants kidnapped at least 400 civilians when they attacked government-held areas in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Al Zor on Saturday, a...

Tunis: The body tasked with naming a unity government for Libya under a UN-backed agreement to resolve the country's armed conflict has delayed...

Occupied Ramallah: Palestinian officials said on Sunday they had arrested a member of their peace negotiating department for spying for Israel, a...

Beirut: The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS militants killed at least 35 Syrian soldiers and pro-government forces in an attack on...

Gaza: Qatari-funded construction projects have provided 1,000 new dwellings for Palestinians left homeless by the 2014 Gaza war with Israel, and a similar...

Vienna/Washington: Iran has released four American prisoners, including a Washington Post reporter, a Christian pastor and a former US Marine, Iranian...

Arbil: Iraq's Kurdistan region is in danger of being drowned by an economic "tsunami" as global oil prices plunge, its deputy prime minister...

Beirut/Geneva: The UN children's fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya,...

Basra: Iraq has sent an armoured army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding...

Gaza: Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in a stone-throwing clash near the Gaza border on Friday, a Palestinian medical official said. An...