Middle East

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...

Dubai: The United States is still fundamentally hostile to Iran and its policies have undermined the benefits of sanctions relief, Iran's supreme leader...

Geneva: Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the...

Algiers: Algeria's army has killed four militants authorities believe were responsible for Friday's attack on the Krechba gas facility operated by...

Geneva: Some Syrians in the besieged areas of Daraya and Deir Al Zor have been reduced to eating grass because food supplies are cut off, the UN World Food...

Baghdad: Supporters of Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada Al Sadr began a sit-in outside the walls of Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Friday to press...

Brussels: Nearly half a million people displaced in Libya could travel to Europe, the EU's foreign policy chief has told the bloc's foreign...

Oslo/Algeria: Militants attacked an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP with rocket-propelled grenades on Friday, causing no...

Geneva: Russia's withdrawal of forces from Syria was no surprise to Damascus, Bashar Ja'afari, head of the Syrian government delegation at peace...

Brussels: The European Union has agreed sanctions on three Libyan leaders who oppose a Western-backed unity government, clearing the way for travel bans and...