Middle East

Ankara: Turkey renewed air strikes on IS group sites in Syria on Friday, extending operations along a 90-km (56-mile) corridor near the Turkish border which...

Beirut: Hundreds of civilians in the Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya began to leave the rebel-held area on Friday in what the government described as an...

Baghdad: A blast caused by a fire at a weapons storage depot in eastern Baghdad on Friday set off rockets that hit neighbouring districts, killing at least...

Jarablus (Syria): Turkey wants to clear IS group from a 90km (56 mile) stretch of territory on the Syrian side of its border, an official said on Wednesday,...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel approved on Wednesday 284 new housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank at a time of heightened international...

Istanbul: Turkey's army chief signalled no let up in a Syria offensive Washington has criticised for targeting US-backed Kurdish fighters as well as...

Qayyara (Iraq): It gets darker earlier these days in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara, which IS militants abandoned about a week ago after setting fire to...

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces said they captured a residential neighbourhood in central Sirte from IS on Monday, leaving just one district of the city still...

BEIRUT: Rubbish is again accumulating on some Beirut streets after protesters blocked access to a dump, raising fears that last summer's garbage crisis,...

Beirut/Karkamis (Turkey): Turkish-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday and drew a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said...