Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi forces launched an operation on Thursday to clear the desert bordering Syria of IS in a final push to rid Iraq of the militant group, the...

Beirut: Lebanon's Saad Al Hariri on Wednesday shelved his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar Al Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a...

Beirut: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of IS on Tuesday while a senior military commander thanked the "thousands of martyrs"...

Geneva: Sanaa and Al Bayda have joined the list of Yemen cities without clean water due to lack of fuel for pumping stations, following a blockade imposed...

Rabat: Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in a southwestern Moroccan town on Sunday as food aid was being...

Baghdad: Iraq's Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday that the Sept. 25 Kurdish independence referendum was unconstitutional and the results void, a...

Beirut: The Syrian army and its allies took complete control over Albu Kamal, IS's last significant town in Syria, a military news service run by...

Paris: Saad Al Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon's prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, said on Saturday he would clarify his position when he...

United Nations: An international investigation into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria will end after Russia blocked for the third time...