World / Middle East

Istanbul: Turkey arrested two MPs from the main pro-Kurdish party yesterday, including its chief spokesman, the latest move in a crackdown on the...

BEIRUT: The Syrian government has denied rumours that President Bashar al-Assad is suffering from ill health, saying he was “carrying out his duties...

Jerusalem: The Palestinian Authority said yesterday that local elections delayed last October after a spat between political factions will now take place in...

Jerusalem: Israeli Jews born in the seven countries included under US President Donald Trump's travel restrictions will not be banned from America, the...

CAIRO: The Islamic State  (IS)group in Egypt claimed yesterday that its fighters killed and wounded 20 Egyptian soldiers in four days of clashes...

Tehran: Iran yesterday warned the United States against fuelling tensions over its ballistic missile tests as the UN Security Council prepared for urgent...

BERLIN: Germany has ruled out giving Turkey unfiltered access to imagery gathered by Tornado fighter jets operating out of Incirlik air base in...

Baghdad: President Donald Trump's travel ban that prevents Iraqis from entering the United States punishes people who are "fighting terrorism," Prime Minister Haider...

Geneva: The UN said Tuesday it had resumed air drops of desperately-needed aid to Deir Ezzor in Syria after halting the deliveries over...

BEIRUT: The next phase of a U.S.-backed campaign against Islamic State in Syria aims to completely encircle its stronghold of Raqqa, severing the...

MOSUL: When Islamic State militants swept into Mosul in 2014, they wandered into Manaf Younes' billiards hall and declared it un-Islamic, taking away...

Baghdad: An Iraqi lawmaker who has campaigned prominently for fellow Yazidi women enslaved by the Islamic State group said Tuesday that new US...

Tehran: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault voiced concern over a weekend ballistic missile test by Iran at a joint press conference with his...

Ankara: Turkey tourism revenues fell almost 30 percent in 2016, the country's statistics office said Tuesday, after visitors stayed away following multiple terror...

ANKARA: At least 30 Islamic State terrorists were neutralized in northern Syria in the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Operation...

IDLIB, Syria: At least three civilians were killed Monday when Syrian regime warplanes carried out an airstrike in the northwestern city of Idlib,...

CAIRO: Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit has called on the new U.S. administration to reconsider its temporary ban on the entry into the...

ANKARA: Turkey reopened its embassy in Libya on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said, more than two years after the mission was closed for...