JUBA: South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation from the Ethiopian Prime Minister to talks with South Sudanese president Salva...
JUBA: South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation from the Ethiopian Prime Minister to talks with South Sudanese president Salva...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's caretaker foreign minister escalated his row with the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR on Wednesday, accusing it at a news conference of...
LONDON: Iran warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday against trusting U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he could cancel their denuclearisation...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he opposed any repeat of the May 12 parliamentary election, and warned that anyone...
Geneva: The UN refugee agency on Tuesday urged Lebanon to reverse a decision to block residency permits for its international staffers following a...
Beirut: An air raid on a village in northeast Syria held by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 10 civilians including...
GENEVA: At least 13 children have been killed over the last week in Syria's opposition-held Idlib province, where an escalation in airstrikes has...
BAGHDAD: A storage site housing half of Baghdad's ballot boxes from Iraq's parliamentary election in May caught fire on Sunday, just days after...
Baghdad: A fire ripped through Iraq's biggest ballot warehouse on Sunday where votes for the eastern Baghdad district were stored, before a recount...
Beirut: Eleven Syrian civilians were killed on Sunday in regime strikes in the country's northwest, a monitor said, in apparent retaliation for a...
BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Sunday that the West is fueling the devastating war in his country, now...
Beirut: Deadly clashes erupted overnight as jihadist fighters attacked two besieged regime-controlled villages in northwestern Syria, a monitor said on Sunday. The villages...
Tehran, Iran: For Iran, the so-called "Axis of Evil" has boiled down to a party of one, as President Donald Trump prepares for...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey: Turkey has completed the construction of a 764-kilometer (475-mile) concrete wall along its border with Syria, according to a Turkish official...
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi security official says three bombs have exploded in the northern city of Kirkuk killing a woman and wounding 18 others....
MOGADISHU, Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for an attack in which a US commando was killed and four others were...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah will remain in Syria as long as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wants it there, the group's leader said on...
Gaza: Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire and tear gas used against protesters at...