Middle East

Tunis: A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Tunisia on Thursday to begin talks on a new credit programme likely to be worth at...

Skhirat (Morocco): Libya's Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at...

Beirut/Munich: The Turkish army shelled Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day on Sunday, while Russia made clear it would continue bombing...

Cairo: Egypt's highest court reversed on Sunday a 15-year jail sentence handed down by a lower court to a policeman for killing an activist in the...

Beirut:The Syrian army intends to advance into IS-held Raqqa province having captured positions at the provincial border of the extremists' stronghold,...

Munich: Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged...

Helsinki: Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily,...

Baghdad: Three members of Iraq's presidential guard were kidnapped on Friday near a checkpoint run by militiamen close to the northern district of Tuz...

Dubai: A new smartphone application that helps Iranians dodge the country's "police" is proving popular with the young tech-savvy...

Brussels: US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday he expected both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to send special operations forces...