World / Middle East

File photo of French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. AFP   Paris: French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday that some 800,000 migrants...

JERUSALEM: Two Palestinian assailants who attacked an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron on Thursday were shot dead by...

Employees work at strengthening the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/ Azad Lashkari /Files BAGHDAD: Iraq’s armed forces started an...

People stroll at Istiklal street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey March 22, 2016. A Turkish flag, which is...

  DAKAR: Sudanese security forces have used threats, assault and rape to silence female human rights activists, forcing many to abandon their work or...

Homes near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank village of Al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem. REUTERS, Ammar Awad   Jerusalem: The...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the media during a news conference with Romania's President Klaus Iohannis (not seen) in Ankara, Turkey, March 23,...

Martin Kobler, United Nations Special Representative and Head of the U.N. Support Mission in Libya, speaks during the news conference after the 8th...

Yemenis inspect the site of a Saudi-led airstrike on a bridge, two people were killed and three injured, Sana'a, Yemen, 23 March 2016....

Free Syrian Army fighters rest in the rebel-controlled area of Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, Syria March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh   Damascus: Syrian...

United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura (L) and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini (R) speak...

Doha: After the announcement from two prestigious Lebanese newspapers, ‘As-Safir’ and ‘An-Nahar’ to stop publishing,  As-Safir management informed its employees that it would...

Representative image. AFP, Michal Cizek   JERUSALEM: Israel has charged a Palestinian computer hacker from the Gaza Strip with breaking into Israeli military drone...

An Indian labourer looks at the construction site of a building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 16, 2014.  REUTERS, Faisal Al Nasser   By...

Syrian children playing on a street in the Teshreen neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria, 22 March 2016. The area is controlled by forces opposing...

  ANKARA: A Japanese man who had attempted to join the Islamic State militant group has been detained by Turkish security forces near the...

  Cairo: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday swore in 10 new ministers in a cabinet reshuffle, as Egypt struggles to revive an economy...

  WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies staged 25 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday in the U.S.-lead coalition's...