World / Middle East

Turkey to set up camps for 170,000 people near Syria's Idlib -sources 06 Mar 2018 - 12:19 pm

ANKARA, Turkey will set up camps to settle 170,000 people in nine locations near Syria's Idlib, and in the area Ankara controls by...

Sudan's envoy returns to Cairo in a sign of improved ties 06 Mar 2018 - 12:07 pm

CAIRO: Sudan's ambassador to Egypt has returned to Cairo more than two months after he was recalled by his government for consultations, a...

Red Cross: Violence halts aid delivery to Syria's Ghouta 06 Mar 2018 - 11:53 am

BEIRUT: The first aid delivery in weeks to reach the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus was cut short after Syrian government forces began...

Aid convoy headed to besieged rebel-held Damascus suburbs 05 Mar 2018 - 01:11 pm

BEIRUT: Desperate for food and basic medicines, many of the besieged and bombarded Syrian civilians in Damascus' eastern suburbs of Ghouta awaited Monday...

Fresh air raids on Syria's Ghouta kill 14: monitor 05 Mar 2018 - 10:02 am

Beirut, Fresh air raids by the Syrian regime on the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta killed at least 14 civilians overnight, a...

Assad regime kills 38 more civilians in Eastern Ghouta 04 Mar 2018 - 11:10 pm

EASTERN Ghouta, Syria: At least 38 more civilians were killed by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in besieged Eastern Ghouta region on Sunday, Syrian...

In Syria's Ghouta, shelters are tombs for the living 04 Mar 2018 - 10:37 pm

BEIRUT: There have been many goodbyes in eastern Ghouta - more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number...

Leaving troubles behind, Netanyahu to meet with 'true friend' Trump 04 Mar 2018 - 10:36 pm

Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet his "true friend" Donald Trump in Washington on Monday during a visit that will...

Syria's Assad says Ghouta campaign must go on 04 Mar 2018 - 10:36 pm

Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday his forces must push on with their campaign to retake the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta...

Syrians flee government advances in eastern Ghouta; Douma convoy approved 04 Mar 2018 - 08:58 pm

BEIRUT/GENEVA: Thousands of civilians have fled advances by Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta in the last two days, a war monitor and...

Dubai denies Egyptian reporters' ties to Emirati outlet 04 Mar 2018 - 08:21 pm

CAIRO: The Dubai government media office says two Egyptian freelance journalists who were arrested while reporting on the historic Alexandria tramway "have no...

Macron urges Tehran to 'pressure' Syria to halt E.Ghouta offensive 04 Mar 2018 - 06:22 pm

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to put the "necessary pressure" on the Syrian government...

Syria regime retakes over a quarter of rebel enclave: monitor 04 Mar 2018 - 06:01 pm

Beirut: The Syrian regime has retaken control of more than a quarter of the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of...

4 soldiers, 10 jihadists killed in Egypt Sinai campaign 04 Mar 2018 - 12:50 pm

Cairo, Egypt's military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 jihadists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Islamic State group...

Iran finds flight recorders of crashed passenger plane 04 Mar 2018 - 12:06 pm

DUBAI: Emergency teams have recovered the flight recorders of a plane that crashed into a mountaintop in southwest Iran two weeks ago, killing...

Observatory: Syrian government forces make new eastern Ghouta advance 03 Mar 2018 - 05:14 pm

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces took almost complete control of the town of al-Shayfouniya in eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory...

Iran calls on U.S., Europe to scrap nuclear arms, missiles 03 Mar 2018 - 02:56 pm

DUBAI: Iran will not negotiate over its ballistic missiles until the United States and Europe dismantle their nuclear weapons, a top Iranian military...