World / Middle East

ROME:  Britain’s Cambridge University rejected on Wednesday any suggestion that one of its tutors might have been implicated in the death of graduate...

GAZA CITY, Palestine: A U.S. decision to suspend financial aid earmarked for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which is responsible for...

HATAY: Twenty aid trucks Wednesday headed from Turkey to the war-battered northern Syrian city of Idlib. The trucks, sent by a number of...

Khartoum: Sudanese security agents arrested the leader of the opposition Communist Party on Wednesday after it organised a protest in the capital Khartoum...

BEIRUT, The main Syrian Kurdish political party called on world powers to stop Turkey's bombardment of the Afrin region in northern Syria. "Afrin...

GAZA:  Life began to look up for Gaza’s Palestinians when reconciliation between its Hamas Islamist rulers and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority in...

Washington: The United States sent $60 million to keep the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees operating Tuesday but withheld a further $65...

"I feel scared when I look at my face in the mirror, so imagine what others must feel when they look at me."...

Jerusalem:  Israeli police said Tuesday they have found sheets of paper with prayers in the country's desert south believed to belong to a...

Rabat:  A Moroccan court sentenced to death a man over the murder of a member of parliament and jailed his widow, in a...

MOSCOW: The U.S. is pursuing several goals by forming a border army in Syria, Russian experts told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. On Sunday,...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas, struck demonstrators with batons and arrested several people at a protest against soaring living costs in the...

ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey's planned military operation against Kurdish militia forces in Syria's Afrin region will be supported...

MOGADISHU, Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants, who have carried out frequent bombings in the capital, Mogadishu, said a former leader who defected to...

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories:  A Palestinian was shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian officials said....

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories:  Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has shown unfailing support for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians, distancing...

Baghdad: Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called for the elimination of jihadist "sleeper cells" Monday after a twin suicide bombing killed 31 people...

BEIRUT, The Syrian government denounced a new border force which the United States is building with its militia allies in northern Syria as...