Middle East

Rome: Italy wants the unvarnished truth about the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the prime minister's office said on Friday, after Egyptian...

Moscow/Geneva: US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to press President Vladimir Putin on how Russia sees a future political transition in Syria and...

Tripoli: The UN envoy to Libya said on Wednesday he had been forced to cancel a flight to Tripoli because he had not been granted landing rights by the...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi named 10 new ministers, including the finance and investment portfolios, in a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday meant to...

Cairo: Egypt's supply minister said the world's top wheat buyer is close to eradicating graft in its strategic sector, defending the country's...

London: Syrian refugees in Jordan are finding it very difficult to get medical care because of Jordanian fees and bureaucracy, and shrinking humanitarian...

Dubai: A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards urged the government on Tuesday to follow its supreme leader's vision for a self-reliant...

Washington/Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he hoped the United States would continue to reject any move...

Beirut: Lebanon's public health ministry referred a case of contaminated Russian wheat imports to a branch of the public prosecutor's office on...

Beirut: IS militants killed 26 Syrian soldiers on Monday west of Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by government forces backed by...