Middle East

Cairo: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday police officers had shot dead 16 gunmen in two shootouts, adding that most of those killed were fugitive...

Tripoli: Libyan coast guards rescued about 85 migrants off the shore east of Tripoli on Saturday but about 40 more migrants were believed to be missing, a...

Mosul/Erbil (Iraq): IS militants vowed to "fight to the death" in Mosul on Saturday as Iraqi military commanders said they would take full control...

Tripoli: Libyan coast guards rescued about 85 migrants off the shore east of Tripoli on Saturday but about 40 more migrants were believed to be missing, a...

Erbil (Iraq): Mosul's basic infrastruture will cost more than $1 billion to repair after the U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive to retake the city from IS, a...

Geneva: The population of Mosul has endured huge suffering in the war to take the northern Iraqi city back from IS and trauma cases among civilians are...

Cairo/Ismailia (Egypt): Egypt's parliament on Tuesday approved an extension of a nationwide state of emergency until the end of September as a police...

Mosul/Erbil: Iraqi forces slowed their advance on Tuesday through the last streets in Mosul controlled by IS where militants and civilians are packed in...

Beirut: When builder Abu Salem repairs a shell hole in a house in rebel-held southern Syria, he knows it might not be the last job he does on the...

Beirut: A fire killed a girl at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, a medical source said, the second lethal fire in a Syrian...