World / Middle East

Ankara: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting Turkey on Thursday to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the first time since July's failed...

BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters killed at least 14 Syrian soldiers in a fierce attack on a military airport northeast of Damascus, the Syrian...

ANKARA: Turkish warplanes killed 51 Islamic State militants in operations over the last 24 hours, the military said in a statement on Thursday....

NINEVEH, Iraq: Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have fled "liberated" areas of eastern Mosul amid ongoing rocket attacks by Islamic State terrorists, according to...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates: A "tripartite mechanism" established by Russia, Turkey and Iran to monitor the ceasefire in Syria has come into...

BEIRUT: Air strikes hit Syrian Red Crescent offices in the northwestern city of Idlib after midnight on Wednesday, injuring several staff and causing ...

AMMAN, Jordan: The relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would undermine Middle East peacemaking efforts, Jordan’s King...

Beirut: Lebanese political parties are currently in discussions over setting a new parliamentary electoral law by May to choose 128 members of parliament...

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump should be more specific about his proposal to set...

Tehran: Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan confirmed on Wednesday that Iran had tested a ballistic missile, but denied that was a breach of its...

RAMALLAH, Palestine: Israeli authorities on Tuesday night approved the construction of 3,000 new settlement units in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a statement,...

ANKARA: Fourteen Islamic State terrorists were "neutralized" in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of Turkish-backed Operation Euphrates Shield, the...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. is to deliver armored vehicles to a contingent of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Pentagon said Tuesday. Spokesman...

CAIRO: Tunisian authorities on Tuesday released 14 Egyptian fishermen detained earlier this month for illegally fishing in Tunisian territorial waters.  The Egyptian state...

CAIRO: The Egyptian authorities have announced that prices for subsidized sugar and cooking oil would be raised -- by 14 and 20 percent...

JERUSALEM: Palestinian municipal elections that were cancelled under controversial circumstances last year are now set to be held in May, the Ramallah-based Palestinian...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Moroccan King Mohammed VI delivered a speech Tuesday to an assembly of the African Union (AU) heads of state and...

BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance should develop its own missile systems after reports Iran had conducted ballistic...