Middle East

Beirut/Geneva: Thousands of civilians have fled advances by Syrian government forces in eastern Ghouta over the last two days, a war monitor and a resident...

Beirut/Eastern Ghouta (Syria): Abu Mohammad Alaya stands on top of a pile of rubble, still searching for the body for his eldest son more than a week after...

Dubai: Emergency teams have recovered the flight recorders of a plane that crashed into a mountaintop in southwest Iran two weeks ago, killing all 66...

Gaza: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. An Israeli...

Cairo: Egypt's top court on Saturday dismissed all outstanding legal challenges to a deal transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a day before...

Dubai: Iran will not negotiate over its ballistic missiles until the United States and Europe dismantle their nuclear weapons, a top Iranian military...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament approved a long-delayed budget on Saturday, the first since declaring victory over IS militant group after three years of...

Beirut: Turkish warplanes struck pro-Syrian government forces in the northwestern Afrin region of Syria on Saturday, killing at least 36 of them, as...

Geneva: Syrian government air strikes on the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta and shelling from the rebel-held zone into Damascus probably...

Cairo: At least 15 people were killed and 40 others were injured in a train crash on Wednesday in Egypt's northern province of Beheira, the official...