Middle East

Geneva/Beirut: An international aid convoy reached the Syrian rebel-held town of Daraya overnight to deliver food supplies for the first time since 2012,...

Tel Aviv: Two Palestinian gunmen killed four people at a popular shopping and restaurant area in Tel Aviv on Wednesday in an attack that sent diners, some...

Beirut: A US-backed alliance of fighters in Syria is ready to enter the IS-held city of Manbij at will but is being cautious due to the presence of...

Moscow/Cairo: An EgyptAir passenger plane, en route from Cairo to Beijing, was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after...

Tunis: Tunisia's ruling party Nidaa Tounes said on Tuesday the prime minister should be replaced in a new unity government proposed by President Beji...

Geneva: The United Nations has "extremely distressing, credible reports" of Iraqi men and boys being abused by armed groups working with Iraqi...

Beirut: President Bashar Al Assad vowed on Tuesday to fight on in what he called Syria's war against terrorism, showing no sign of compromise in his...

Baghdad/Erbil: An Iraqi militia leader accused government forces of "betrayal" as a split emerged between the Iranian-backed paramilitaries and...

Amman: Three Jordanian intelligence officers and two other security personnel were killed in an attack on a security office in a Palestinian refugee camp on...

Amman: Nearly 50 strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian...