Middle East

Beirut: Syrian troops fought on Sunday to crush the last pockets of resistance by IS militants trapped in an enclave south of Damascus, state media said,...

Tehran: The European Union is not doing enough to preserve the benefits for Iran from the 2015 international nuclear pact following the withdrawal of the...

Ramallah: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been hospitalised in the West Bank due to complications after minor surgery last week, a Palestinian...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi met with Moqtada Al Sadr on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the cleric's bloc was declared winner of...

Baghdad: A political bloc led by populist cleric Moqtada Al Sadr has won the country's parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on...

Tehran: The European Union's energy chief tried to reassure Iran on Saturday that the bloc remained committed to salvaging a nuclear deal with Tehran...

Baghdad: Gunmen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk were on Wednesday besieging several polling stations containing election staff, four days after a...

Cairo: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has pardoned more than 330 people, many of them youths jailed for demonstrating in recent years. Sisi told...

Gaza/Occupied Jerusalem: Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, with Israel on Wednesday pointing to what...

Beirut: The remaining fighters started to withdraw from the last rebel-held enclave in central Syria on Wednesday, state television reported, sealing the...