World / Middle East

Qamishli, Syria: A top Syrian Kurdish official gave a guarded welcome Thursday to a US-Turkish agreement to establish a joint operations centre for...

Jerusalem, The body of an Israeli soldier was found with multiple stab wounds near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on...

TUNIS: Tunisia's former president Moncef Marzouki on Wednesday lodged his presidential candidacy file to run for office in early elections scheduled for next...

ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's state-run news agency says a second Turkish drillship has started drilling for gas off ethnically divided Cyprus, in an area...

BEIRUT: Syrian government forces captured two northwestern villages in an intensified offensive on the last rebel-held part of the country, inching closer to...

CAIRO: Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted 122 Europe-bound migrants off the country's Mediterranean coast in recent days. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim says...

Istanbul: Turkey and the US were on a collision course Tuesday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to "eliminate" a Kurdish militia in...

ANKARA: Turkey’s counter-terrorism offensives will move forward to a "different phase” in northern Syria soon, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "We’II...

Tehran, Iran unveiled three precision-guided missiles on Tuesday, with the defence minister saying they show the country is ready to defend itself in...

CAIRO: A car packed with explosives being driven to carry out an attack collided with other vehicles and exploded in central Cairo outside...

Damascus: Syria's army said Monday it would resume operations against the jihadist-run Idlib region, just days after it agreed to a truce ending...

Tripoli: At least 42 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an airstrike on a town in southern Libya, a local official...

Istanbul: Turkey called on the United States to end its support for a Kurdish militia in northern Syria as the two countries held...

Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced harsh criticism and mockery Monday by election rivals and a former cabinet colleague after members of...

ISTANBUL: Turkey will carry out an operation east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria, in an area controlled by the Kurdish YPG...

CAIRO: Egypt started the first-ever restoration work on a gold-covered sarcophagus of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, ahead of the country's new museum...

Tehran: Iran has seized a "foreign vessel" in the Gulf, state media said Sunday, in what would be the third such seizure in...

CAIRO: Sudan's pro-democracy movement has signed a power-sharing agreement with the ruling military council aimed at paving the way for a transition to...