Baghdad: The commander of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service said Tuesday that, with his forces at the edge of jihadist-held Mosul, the "true liberation"...
Baghdad: The commander of Iraq's elite Counter-Terrorism Service said Tuesday that, with his forces at the edge of jihadist-held Mosul, the "true liberation"...
Google marked the 95th birthday of Wadih El Safi, Lebanon’s most prominent cultural icon, with a doodle featuring the musician sitting with his...
Moscow: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday accused the US-led coalition in Syria of failing to rein in hardline rebels, and said...
Rabat: Morocco has arrested 11 people over the death of a fish seller whose crushing in a rubbish truck sparked widespread demonstrations, prosecutors...
GENEVA: Islamic State militants killed 40 former members of the Iraqi Security Forces near Mosul on Saturday and threw their bodies in the...
Arbil, Iraq: Elite Iraqi forces were poised Tuesday for a first push into Mosul, after the prime minister warned jihadists who hold the...
MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the...
ISTANBUL: In the three and half months since a failed military coup, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 110,000 people, launched a...
Ankara: Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday Turkey wants the drive to oust Islamic State jihadists from the Syrian city of Raqa...
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian assailant shot and wounded three Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was killed by troops returning...
Istanbul: Turkish police on Monday detained the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet -- a thorn in the side of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
United Nations, United States: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed the long-awaited election of a president in Lebanon and said a new...
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army and its allies on Monday announced the recapture of five more villages near the northern city of Mosul, according...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, endinga 29-month presidential vacuum as part of a political...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum as part of a...
Beirut: A rebel assault to break the siege of Syria's Aleppo slowed Monday amid fierce resistance from regime forces, as the UN said...
BEIRUT: A Lebanese presidential election went to a second round on Monday when former army chief Michel Aoun failed to secure the necessary...
Bartalla, Iraq: Iraqi special forces advanced on the eastern city limits of Mosul on Monday, tightening the noose as the offensive to retake...