Middle East

Baghdad: IS militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's...

Baghdad: Nine fighters from a militia battling IS were killed in northern Iraq when an Iraqi army aircraft fired at them in error, security and militia...

Beirut: A large Syrian rebel group has said the best way to push Damascus to a political settlement of the country's civil war was to give insurgents...

Beirut: An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a UN envoy visited Damascus to advance preparations...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi on Saturday pledged to stamp out corruption this year amid criticism from the nation's top cleric, Grand...

Dubai: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called on all Iranians to participate in next month's elections to parliament and to...

Cairo: Armed men shot dead a police officer and a soldier on Saturday while they were in their car in the Giza area, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's...

Cairo: Egypt's court of appeals on Saturday rejected an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons over a three-year jail sentence for...

Baghdad: Foreign special forces have been carrying out raids on an IS stronghold in northern Iraq ahead of an offensive planned later this year to retake...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli police killed in a shootout on Friday an Arab citizen wanted for a January 1 gun rampage in Tel Aviv, the security services...