Middle East

Baghdad: Iraq sent money to pay salaries of state employees in the Kurdish region on Monday for the first time since 2014, the Baghdad government said,...

Occupied Jerusalem: An Israeli security guard died of wounds he suffered in a stabbing attack in occupied Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday carried out by...

Istanbul: A bomb blast in a four-storey building in the town of Afrin in northwest Syria killed seven civilians and four Free Syrian Army members overnight,...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel said on Monday it had arrested a French citizen, an employee of France's consulate in Jerusalem, on suspicion of smuggling...

Istanbul: Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies swept into the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday, raising their flags in the town centre...

Cairo: Mostafa Al Asar's lawyer said he had barely started work on a documentary critical of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi when police...

Beirut: Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns to escape battles in the north and south of Syria on Saturday, where two different offensives...

Beirut: Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy...

Beirut: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Syria said a convoy of 25 aid trucks entered the northern pocket of Syria's besieged...

Beirut: Water to Syria's Afrin town has been cut for a week, the United Nations said on Wednesday, after Turkish troops seized the main dam and water...