Middle East

Beirut: Lebanon expects to hold a parliamentary election on May 6, 2018, and parliament will extend its current term until May 20 that year, Information...

Beirut: Lebanon's rival parties reached agreement on Tuesday on an electoral law, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said, staving off a political crisis...

Erbil (Iraq): About 800 people fell ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, officials and...

Abu Dhabi/Beirut: Syria has received 225,000 tonnes of Russian wheat, part of a 1.2 million tonne wheat deal struck in February through its state grain...

Ankara: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and said Washington's...

Ankara: Tehran's streets were filled with thousands of Iranians celebrating their men's national soccer team's qualification for the 2018 World...

Amman: The Syrian army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to...

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...