Middle East

Raqqa (Syria): U.S.-backed militias in Syria declared victory over IS in its capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising flags over the last extremist footholds after...

Tunis: Tunisia will not cut public salaries and subsidies for food and petrol next year, a move which may avert protests but sets the country on a...

Raqqa (Syria): U.S.-backed militias will capture IS's last foothold in the militants' former Syrian capital of Raqqa within hours, a militia...

Baghdad: Iraqi government forces captured the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish vote on independence with a bold lightning...

Beirut: Lebanon's president said on Monday his country could no longer cope with hosting huge numbers of Syrian refugees and called on world powers to...

Cairo: Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women's rights experts saying the treatment of...

Baghdad: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rejected a warning from an Iraqi paramilitary force to withdraw from a strategic junction south of Kirkuk, which...

Ain Issa (Syria)/Beirut: U.S.-backed militias said they had launched their final assault on Syria's Raqqa on Sunday after a convoy of IS militants left...

Kobani (Syria): Almost three years after Kurdish fighters defeated IS in the Syrian town of Kobani, residents still mourn the dead and feel abandoned by...

Amman: Syria demanded on Saturday that Turkish troops who had entered northwestern Syria leave immediately, saying their presence constituted a...