Middle East

Geneva: Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in and around Mosul could be uprooted by the military assault to retake city from IS, the UN refugee agency UNHCR...

HASAKA (Syria)/BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the...

Nablus (occupied West Bank): Nablus, the second largest city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was gripped by violent protests on Tuesday after the death...

Hebron (occupied West Bank): At the peak of a searing summer, Palestinians living in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank are suffering from severe water...

Cairo: A fact-finding commission investigating corruption in Egypt's domestic wheat supplies has delivered its final report to parliament, a lawmaker...

Benghazi: Opponents of Libya's UN-backed government voted on Monday against a motion of confidence in the Tripoli-based administration, in a rare...

Hasaka (Syria): The Kurdish YPG militia launched a major assault on Monday to seize the last government-controlled parts of the northeastern Syrian city of...

Dubai: The Russian military said on Monday that its aircraft operating from an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria had now completed their tasks,...

Diyarbakir: One soldier was killed and three police officers were wounded in a clash with Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey on Monday, security...

Jerusalem: Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket that landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday and Israeli aircraft and...