World / Middle East

Iran rejects 'biased' UN human rights report 16 Mar 2016 - 11:51 am

Tehran: Iran on Wednesday rejected as biased and political the latest United Nations report on human rights in the Islamic republic. In 2015,...

Iraq preparing to push Islamic State away from oil region: report 16 Mar 2016 - 11:15 am

File photo of Iraqi government forces in the south of Baghdad. AFP BAGHDAD: Kurdish Peshmerga forces, an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia and Iraq's army...

Aid reaches 13,000 families in Syria's Aleppo province: Red Cross 16 Mar 2016 - 10:38 am

Men unload aid boxes from a Red Crescent convoy in the rebel held besieged town of Jesreen, in the eastern Damascus suburb of...

Iran sees Russia's withdrawal from Syria as "positive sign" 16 Mar 2016 - 09:40 am

File picture of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the foreign ministry in Madrid. Reuters/Andrea Comas DUBAI: Iran's foreign minister has called...

Turkish police detain 20 in Istanbul raids targeting PKK - Anadolu 16 Mar 2016 - 09:31 am

ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 20 suspects, including lawyers, in an operation involving raids across Istanbul targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group,...

Russia says another group of its warplanes flies back from Syria 16 Mar 2016 - 09:09 am

Participants attend a ceremony to welcome Russian military jets and pilots upon their arrival from Syria at an airbase in Buturlinovka in Voronezh...

'No plans' to send British troops to Libya: government 16 Mar 2016 - 12:01 am

British soldiers in Kabul Afghanistan. Reuters, Ahmad Masood London: Britain has no plans to extend bombing or send troops to Libya, the defence...

Turkey says Ankara bomber linked to Syrian Kurdish rebels 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Demonstrators hold carnations and pictures of victims of Sunday's suicide bomb attack during a silent march to pay tributes to the victims, in...

41 civilians dead in coalition raids on Yemen market: medics 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

People ride a motorbike past a building destroyed during recent fighting in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Anees Mahyoub Aden:...

Seat at geopolitical top table allowed Putin to scale back in Syria 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony following his meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI at the Kremlin in Moscow on March...

Syrian sides submit 'documents' on political deal: UN envoy 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

As peace talks aimed at ending the conflict wrapped up their second day in Geneva, UN mediator Staffan de Mistura told reporters he...

Kerry says to meet Putin in Russia next week 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

"I will be traveling next week to Moscow to meet with President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in order to discuss how...

Russian warplanes leave Syria, raising UN hopes for peace talks 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

A handout frame grab taken from a video footage made available 15 March 2016 by the Russian Defence Ministry shows Russian SU-34 multidimensional...

Cyprus threatens to block EU-Turkey migrant deal 16 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am

A handout picture released by the Cypriot government's Press and Information Office (PIO) shows Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades (R) shaking hands with the...

Civilians flee Iraq town as battle looms 15 Mar 2016 - 06:45 pm

Iraqi army members stand in line to receive food in Makhmour base south of Mosul Iraq March 13, 2016. REUTERS, Azad Lashkari Baghdad:...

Palestinians rethink routines to avoid Israeli suspicions 15 Mar 2016 - 06:24 pm

The brother and the mother (C) of Palestinian Qasim Jaber, 31, who the Israeli military said was shot dead by the Israeli army...

ISIS attack near key east Libya oil field 15 Mar 2016 - 06:22 pm

mages from Sarir show more damage than initially reported, including to the actual installation. source: twitter.com/Oded121351 By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI: Suspected Islamic State ...