Middle East

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces faced fierce resistance on Saturday from IS militants defending a final strip of land in their former stronghold of Sirte,...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament approved a law on Saturday that will transform Popular Mobilisation forces, a coalition of militias that played a role in...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for greater cooperation between Iran and Turkey to help establish stability in Syria and...

Beirut: Syrian government and allied forces seized large parts of an important district in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Saturday but fierce fighting for...

Duhok (Iraq): When shells began crashing around the town of Tal Afar as militias brought the fight to IS in northern Iraq, Abu Faraj saw his chance to...

Erbil/Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled Tal Afar as paramilitary groups close in around the IS-held town on the road between Mosul in Iraq and...

Paris: France accused Syria and its allies on Wednesday of using political uncertainty in the United States to launch "total war" against...

Beirut: Extending US sanctions on Iran for 10 years would breach the Iranian nuclear agreement, Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said on Wednesday,...

Occupied Jerusalem: A team of Israeli archaeologists and high school students have unearthed a 3,800-year-old pottery jug bearing a statuette of a person...

Tunis: Tunisian lawyers went on their second strike in a month on Wednesday to protest against new taxes and tighter fiscal controls in the government's...