Middle East

Beirut/Amman/Geneva: A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of...

Beirut: Lebanon's government is so dysfunctional, Beirut stinks. And now it's getting dangerous. Six months ago, the authorities shut the main...

Rome: An international coalition is pushing back IS militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds but the group is threatening Libya and could seize the...

London: Jordan's King Abdullah II says his country needs long-term aid from the international community to cope with a huge influx of Syrian refugees,...

Baghdad: Tens of thousands of trapped Iraqi civilians are running out of food and medicine in the western city of Fallujah, an IS stronghold under siege by...

Istanbul/Brussels: More than 3,000 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into...

Dubai: Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Monday criticised the disqualification of candidates from national elections to be held later...

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned a stalemate in the peace process between Israel and Palestinians is reaching the point of no...

Amman: At least 60 people were killed, including 25 fighters, and dozens wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in a district of Damascus...

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...