Middle East

Mosul/Erbil (Iraq): IS militants were battling to hold on to the last few streets under their control in the Old City of Mosul on Monday, making a doomed...

Beirut: The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday, including in Quneitra province, where Israel has hit army...

Beirut/Damascus: A car bomb killed 20 people in Damascus on Sunday and wounded dozens more, the Syrian foreign ministry said, the first such bombing in the...

Khartoum: Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October, a decree by President Omar Hassan Al Bashir said on Sunday, two...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld the death penalty for 20 men charged with killing policemen in the violence that followed the military's...

Bekaa Valley (Lebanon): A fire tore through a camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Sunday, killing at least one person and leaving two...

Ramle (Israel): Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, 71, was released on parole on Sunday from a prison in Ramle, near Tel Aviv, after serving 16...

Mosul: The leaning minaret of Mosul's Grand Al Nuri Mosque survived conquests by the Mongols and the Ottomans, neglect under Saddam Hussein, and air...

Gaza: Egypt sent fuel on Wednesday to the Gaza Strip's only power plant to help alleviate an energy crisis that has left the Palestinian enclave's...