World / Middle East

President of the Syrian National Coalition Khaled Khoja delivers remarks regarding Russian air strikes on Syria at the United Nations in Manhattan, New...

A view of Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran on January 3, 2016.   Tehran: Iran's foreign ministry accused Saudi Arabia of stoking regional tension...

  BEIRUT: Syrian insurgent group Jaysh al Islam on Monday welcomed Saudi Arabia's rupture of ties with Iran, saying Tehran's backing of Shi'ite militias...

  Aden: Authorities in Yemen's southern city of Aden imposed a curfew on Monday after violence blamed on suspected jihadists killed at least 17...

  Hilla, Iraq: Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a...

File photo for representative purpose   Diyarbakir, Turkey: A mother of three was killed on Sunday when a mortar shell hit her apartment in...

  RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a...

  Cairo: Secretary-General of the Arab League Dr Nabil El-Araby has condemned the attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran and its consulate in...

Nikolai Nikiforov   MOSCOW: A social network account of Russia’s communications minister was temporarily blocked on Sunday in a cyberattack carried out by hackers...

  Dubai: Police in the Gulf state of Bahrain clashed on Sunday with Shiite protesters a day after neighbouring Saudi Arabia executed a Shiite...

Smoke rises during an air strike in Ramadi city, December 26, 2015. Reuters/Stringer     WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies conducted 26 strikes...

  Tikrit, Iraq: Suicide attackers from the Islamic State group killed at least 12 Iraqi forces Sunday in a brazen attack on police training...

Abu Dhabi: The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oon Sunday summoned Iran's Ambassador to the UAE Mohammad Reza Fayyad. The official WAM news...

Beirut: Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from the Islamic State group during fierce clashes north of the jihadists'...

Riyadh: The Secretary-General of the GCC Dr Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani condemned Saturday the attacks against the Saudi embassy and consulate...

  Istanbul: Turkey's parliament will set up a committee to consider lifting the immunity of two leaders of the main Kurdish party so they...

A Palestinian man inspects a house that was badly damaged from a suspected attack by Jewish extremists on two houses at Kafr Duma...

Istanbul: Turkish coastguards rescued 57 migrants seeking to reach EU member Greece by sea after they were stranded on a rocky islet in...