Middle East

Cairo: An often fiery government critic, Egyptian journalist Khaled Al Balshi has been arrested, had his operations monitored, and staff harassed by police...

Ankara: Police in Iran killed four IS suspects, two of them foreigners, in the southern province of Hormuzgan and seized explosives, guns and the...

Cairo: Egypt will keep administrative control over two Red Sea islands it plans to transfer to Saudi Arabia, according to a government report advising...

Amman: Jordan's army said on Sunday its border guards killed five people who were approaching its frontier from Tanf, a Syrian desert town where U.S....

Benghazi: Saif Al Islam Gaddafi has been freed by an armed group in western Libya where he was being held following the 2011 revolt against his late...

London: Iranian authorities said on Sunday they have arrested six people involved in a twin attack on Tehran in which 17 people were killed last...

Erbil (Iraq): A six-year old Iraqi Christian girl, kidnapped by IsS when she was three, was reunited with her family on Friday, and getting used to saying...

Dubai: Iranian authorities have arrested seven people it suspects of helping militants involved in this week's attacks in the capital Tehran, a...

Beirut: U.S.-backed Syrian forces have advanced into opposite sides of IS' so-called Syrian capital of Raqqa, the forces and a war monitor said on...