World / Middle East

   Ramallah: The Palestinian Health Ministry reported Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and armed Israeli paramilitary settlers in...

  Aden: Cyclone Megh has killed six people on war-ravaged Yemen's Socotra island, the second rare tropical storm to hit the Arabian Peninsula country...

  AMMAN, Jordan: A U.S. official says the death toll in a shooting at a regional police training center in Jordan appears to have...

Hakan Buskhe, President and Chief Executive Officer of Saab, left, and UAE Major General Major General Abdullah Al Hashimi shake hands as they...

A Russian tourist from Sharm El Sheikh is welcomed as she arrives at the Domodedovo International airport, outside Moscow, on November 8, 2015.  ...

  Moscow: Russia announced Monday that it has agreed to push on with a deal to deliver S-300 missile systems to Iran after Moscow...

   Dakar: The French army on Sunday bombed an oil supply centre held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves...

   Amman: A Jordanian policeman Monday shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre...

  Baghdad Iraqi air forces and International Coalition against IS have carried out 61 air strikes that targeted some IS positions killiing a number...

  Dubai: The United Arab Emirates Air Force announced Monday a $1.27-billion deal with Swedish defence giant Saab to purchase two surveillance planes and...

    Human Rights Watch called on international community to ensure that 400,000 Syrian children in Turkey have access to education.   Istanbul: More than 400,000...

   Occupied Jerusalem: A Palestinian woman was shot dead today for allegedly trying to stab an Israeli soldier at the Eliyahu military checkpoint in...

   Tehran: An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale shook the region of Qaleh Ganj in southern Iranian province of Kerman. Iran's Seismological...

   Sana'a: At least one Yemeni was killed as Cyclone Megh, which formed in the Arabian Sea earlier in the week, hit Socotra Island...

   Belgrade: Two Serbian embassy employees, a man and a woman, were abducted in Libya's coastal city of Sabratha on Sunday while they were...

  Beirut: Apparent Russian air strikes killed at least 11 civilians on Sunday in two towns in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a monitoring group...

   Cairo: The Arab League Council warned Sunday that continuous Israeli violations could lead to an end of any political settlement for the Palestinian...

 This November 7, 2015 NASA satellite photo shows Tropical Cyclone Megh in the Arabian Sea, before it made landfall in war-ravaged Yemen's Socotra...