Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said in a decree on Tuesday he would lift a ban on international air traffic to the Kurdistan Region and...

Beirut: Sick and injured civilians left a rebel enclave in Syria's eastern Ghouta on Tuesday under the first medical evacuation since a massive assault...

Ankara/Beirut: Turkey's military and its rebel allies have encircled the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the Turkish armed forces said on Tuesday, a...

Gaza: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah survived an assassination attempt in Gaza on Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority said after an explosion near...

New York: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned on Monday that if the UN Security Council fails to act on Syria, Washington "remains...

Amman/Beirut: Thousands of families are sleeping in the open in the streets of the biggest town of Syria's rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave, where...

Istanbul/Dubai: A wealthy Turkish socialite and her friends were among the 11 people killed on Sunday when a private plane bringing them home from a Dubai...

Al Mokha (Yemen): It took Seham Ali Ibrahim one month to make the dangerous journey from her village near the frontline town of Al Heiss to the relative...

Beirut: The Syrian army and rebel groups engaged in fierce battles early on Sunday on a critical front in eastern Ghouta where government advances have in...

Beirut: The Syrian army intensified its onslaught in eastern Ghouta on Saturday with advances that a war monitor and state media said had splintered the...