Middle East

Beirut: President Michel Aoun held talks on Monday with other Lebanese political leaders over the future of Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri's government,...

Amman: Around 1,000 Syrians who sought refuge in Jordan have been returning home each month since July when a ceasefire for southern Syria took force, the...

Gaza City: Palestinian movement Hamas again refused to disarm on Monday ahead of a key reconciliation deadline, instead threatening to carry out attacks...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces said Monday they face a tough battle against the IS group in deep gorges and other natural hideouts in the western desert along the...

Al Husayniyah (Egypt): The young Egyptian cleric who survived the Sinai mosque massacre that killed 305 people vowed on Sunday from his hospital bed to go...

Dubai: A ship carrying 5,500 tonnes of flour docked in Yemen's Hodeidah port in the Red Sea on Sunday, the first after more than two weeks of a blockade...

Tehran(Iran): The number of dead in a major earthquake that hit Iran's western province of Kermanshah this month has risen to 483, official news agency...

Beirut: Syrian regime air strikes and artillery fire killed 24 civilians on Sunday across the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside the capital Damascus,...

Amman: More than 11 million children in war-torn Yemen are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, the United Nations children's fund warned on...

Tabarja (Lebanon): The Lebanese divers plunge below the surface, scuba tanks on their backs and nets in hand. But what they're looking for under the...