Middle East

Amman/Beirut: Rebels shot down a second Syrian warplane in less than a month on Tuesday and reportedly captured its pilot in an area near Aleppo where heavy...

Baghdad: A US de-mining company is removing explosives and training Iraqis to dismantle the devices planted by IS in the largest Iraqi city retaken from the...

Baghdad/Ankara: About 25 people were killed on Monday across Iraq, most of them in suicide attacks targeting members of militias and military forces,...

Washington: US President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO could help Libya counter IS militants as well as...

Washington: The United States has carried out an air strike in Syria that killed a prominent leader of Al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front, Abu Firas Al Suri, US...

Paris/Berlin: Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to...

Rome/Tehran: Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will visit Iran next week, his office said on Monday, three months after the Iranian president came to...

Cairo: Egyptian officials have indefinitely postponed a trip to Rome to discuss the investigation into the murder of an Italian student whose body was...

Gaza: Construction workers in Gaza have discovered ancient ruins that archaeologists say may be part of a Byzantine church dating from around 1,500 years...

Gaza: Israel on Sunday extended the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to head out to sea along certain parts of the coastline of the enclave, which is run...