Middle East

Amman/Beirut: Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the...

Tripoli: When the doors of a Tripoli bank open, hundreds of frantic customers surge forward, desperate for money they have been waiting weeks or months to...

Al Shura/Baghdad: Iraqi militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around...

Geneva/Baghdad: IS forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as "human...

Beirut: Syrian rebels including hadrliners counter-attacked the army and its allies on Friday aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo,...

Beirut: Air strikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, in a village in Syria's rebel-held Idlib...

Qayyara/Baghdad: IS fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern...

Ankara/Beirut: Turkey said on Wednesday it will press its military offensive in Syria until IS is driven from the town of Al Bab, despite a warning from...

Doha: Yemeni army units backed by an Arab coalition attacked positions held by Houthis in a strategic province east of the capital on Wednesday, a day after...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prosecutors in Israel on Wednesday charged 13 people with inciting violence and terrorism after a wedding video showed far-right Jews...