Middle East

Baghdad: Iraq has approved measures requested by the International Monetary Fund in order to unlock loans that should help overcome a cash crunch caused by...

Beirut: A bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Lebanese Blom Bank in central Beirut on Sunday, causing damage but no fatalities, the country's...

Baghdad/Erbil: The Iraqi army said on Sunday it had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave IS' besieged stronghold Falluja, and a...

Tripoli: A suicide bomber killed three people at a field hospital for forces fighting IS in their Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte on Sunday, a security...

Algiers: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika named new energy and finance ministers on Saturday in a cabinet reshuffle, as the OPEC member tries to cope...

Benghazi: At least seven civilians have been killed and eight wounded by shelling in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a hospital official said on...

Cairo: Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was appointed last month...

Amman: IS militants claimed responsibility for car and suicide bomb blasts that killed at least eight people and injured scores in a suburb of the Syrian...

Baghdad/Falluja: US and Iraqi officials said on Friday they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that IS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi had been...

Geneva: Israel's cancellation of entry permits for Palestinians following a deadly attack in Tel Aviv may amount to collective punishment, which is...