By Naline Malla and John Davis BEIRUT: Through intense bombardment, seeing friends killed before her eyes and living without power, Layana Darwish stuck...
By Naline Malla and John Davis BEIRUT: Through intense bombardment, seeing friends killed before her eyes and living without power, Layana Darwish stuck...
DAMASCUS: Iran would consider sending fighters to key ally Syria if Damascus requests them, a senior Iranian official said Thursday on a visit...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State jihadist group on separate fronts Thursday, ramping up operations to retake Baiji and Ramadi, two of...
Sun Jianguo. Beijing: China wants to strengthen military ties with Iran, a senior Chinese admiral said in a statement on Thursday, three months...
CAIRO: When general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi swapped his uniform for a suit to become Egyptian president, he mapped out a return to democracy...
Erbil: President of Kurdistan Region of Iraq Masoud Barzani met on Wednesday with a US delegation headed by Senate Majority leader Senator Mitch...
Tripoli, Lebanon: Every day, hundreds of people at Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli board a ship bound for Turkey -- but for...
By Jeffrey Heller and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM: Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the...
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM: In the narrow corners of Jerusalem, where Jewish neighbourhoods abut Palestinian ones, apprehension ran deep on Wednesday as Israel...
Caption By Magdalena Mis LONDON: Struggling with frequent water cuts, residents of Syria's battered city of Aleppo have a new way to find...
TEHRAN: Two senior Iranian commanders, one a general, have been killed fighting Islamic State jihadists in Syria alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces, local...
By Samia Nakhoul and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Reuters on Wednesday some of the suspects in suicide bombings...
TEHRAN: Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said could...
WASHINGTON: Investors poured increasing amounts of cash into startups in the third quarter, defying fears of a bubble in the tech sector, a...
A damaged building in Aleppo, Syria. BEIRUT: The United States and Russia were to hold new talks Wednesday on avoiding incidents in the...
Two senior officers from Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed fighting Islamic State militants in Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported, ahead of a...
Ankara: Three top Turkish police officials were sacked Wednesday over the weekend's twin blasts in Ankara, as the under-fire president paid homage to...
Sana'a: Thirteen Houthi militants and forces loyal to deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed and 27 others injured in clashes with...