Middle East

Baghdad: The United Nations appealed on Sunday for $861 million to help Iraq meet a big funding gap in its 2016 emergency response to the humanitarian...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for a more "sober" approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian...

Amman/Geneva: A delegation from Syria's main opposition group flew to Geneva on Saturday to assess whether to join Damascus government officials in...

Ankara: Iran has cancelled a London conference where it was set to introduce new oil and gas contracts to investors, the Seda weekly reported on Saturday...

Geneva/Beirut: The first Syria peace talks for two years were a "complete failure" before they started on Friday, a Western diplomat said, after...

Occupied Jerusalem: The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation dating...

London: An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined IS in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's...

Dubai/Paris: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on his arrival in Paris on Wednesday that a new chapter had began in Tehran's relations with the...

Beirut/Geneva/Paris: The Syrian opposition is awaiting a response to its demands from the United Nations before deciding whether to attend peace...

Algiers: Algeria has suspended flights to Tripoli, a few days after it detained hundreds of Moroccans trying to travel to Libya having arrived at the...