World / Middle East

JERUSALEM:Israel is to lift temporary restrictions on Muslim worship at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, imposed after the weekend killing of two Israelis...

Beirut: Rights groups including Amnesty International urged Syrian authorities Tuesday to release human rights lawyer Khalil Maatuq and his assistant, three years after...

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under pressure Tuesday from right-wing allies in his razor-thin coalition to respond forcefully to Palestinian unrest,...

RIYADH:  Indonesian forensic experts are in Saudi Arabia to help identify those still missing from the country which suffered one of the heaviest...

Representational image SULAIMANIYAH:  Schools were closed for the third day running Tuesday in the Sulaimaniyah province of Iraq's Kurdistan region, where the cash-strapped...

    Jens Stoltenberg   BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that Russian violations of Turkish airspace were "not an accident" after Turkey complained...

DUBAI: Two United Arab Emirates (UAE) military personnel were among several people killed in attacks in the southern Yemen city of Aden on...

Ankara: Turkey summoned the Russian ambassador to Ankara for a second time after a new violation of its air space by a Russian...

Ankara: At least 6 Turkish soldiers injured after an explosive device was detonated in Turkey by elements of the PKK in Diyarbakir State...

Occupied Jerusalem: At least ten Palestinians suffocated in ongoing clashes with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the villages of Al-Fundoq and Hejja in...

Beirut: Lebanese army intelligence patrol in Arsal arrested the so-called Youssef Abdullah Awdeh in his "pickup" coming from Arsal terrain, on suspicion of...

Jerusalem: Israel on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians behind attacks and sealed off a room in another, the army said, after...

Aden: A hotel in Yemen's second city of Aden where Prime Minister Khaled Bahah was staying with members of the government was on...

BAGHDAD:  At least 57 people were killed on Monday in car bomb attacks in Baghdad and the north and south of Iraq, police...

Bernardino Leon SKHIRAT:  Libya's rival factions resumed talks in Morocco on Monday to try to move forward with a UN-brokered peace deal and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black...

TUNIS:  Tunisia's minister in charge of relations with parliament announced Monday he has submitted his resignation in protest at the lack of will...

BAGHDAD:  Three car bombs killed at least 50 people in Iraq Monday, including 35 in a single blast north of Baghdad and 10...