World / Middle East

WASHINGTON: The U.S. is to deliver armored vehicles to a contingent of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Pentagon said Tuesday. Spokesman...

CAIRO: Tunisian authorities on Tuesday released 14 Egyptian fishermen detained earlier this month for illegally fishing in Tunisian territorial waters.  The Egyptian state...

CAIRO: The Egyptian authorities have announced that prices for subsidized sugar and cooking oil would be raised -- by 14 and 20 percent...

JERUSALEM: Palestinian municipal elections that were cancelled under controversial circumstances last year are now set to be held in May, the Ramallah-based Palestinian...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Moroccan King Mohammed VI delivered a speech Tuesday to an assembly of the African Union (AU) heads of state and...

BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance should develop its own missile systems after reports Iran had conducted ballistic...

NINEVEH, Iraq: Iraqi forces on Tuesday seized a munitions depot amid ongoing army operations to capture eastern Mosul from the Islamic State terrorist...

KARACHI, Pakistan: Fresh Israeli settlements and U.S. plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem dominated talks between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Palestinian...

TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament has voted to draw up a fact-finding committee tasked with investigating networks that allegedly recruit Tunisian youth for conflicts in...

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...