World / Middle East

Baghdad: Sitting in the green grass under a bright Baghdad sun, Iraqi men and women bury their heads in romance novels, essay collections...

Deir Ezzor, Syria: Haitham al-Ahmad has been busy dusting down kitchen appliances ahead of the grand reopening of his pizza place, after government...

Abu Fas, Syria: US-backed fighters launched a new offensive on Saturday to oust the Islamic State group from swathes of Syria's eastern Deir...

BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies recaptured an oilfield from Islamic State near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday in...

Tabqa, Syria: The war-ravaged homes are littered with mines and lack running water or even doors, but they are the only option for...

Istanbul:  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the United States yesterday to review charges against a Turkish former minister for violating US-Iran sanctions,...

Moscow:  Russia claimed yesterday to have killed several top commanders of the Islamic State group in an air strike in Syria, including the...

IDLIB, Syria: At least six people were killed in a series of blasts that hit the opposition-held Idlib city in northwestern Syria on...

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces closed temporarily the two floating bridges in the heart of the northern city of Mosul after information about ten...

Damascus: Syria said Israeli air strikes hit a military facility in the country's west on Thursday, killing two people at a site where...

Damascus: Syria's army said Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed two people at a military facility in the country's west, a zone where...

Tehran:  The website of Iran's main stadium was hacked on Wednesday with a demand that women be allowed to watch football matches, a...

BEIRUT: The Syrian army and its allies are fighting to secure and expand a precarious corridor to their comrades in Deir al-Zor a...

Geneva: United Nations war crimes investigators on Wednesday said they had evidence that Syrian government forces were behind the chemical attack that killed...

GENEVA: Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country's civil war, including in the deadly attack that...

JERUSALEM: A leading Palestinian activist known for advocating non-violent resistance in the occupied West Bank has gone on hunger strike to protest his...

Damascus: Syrian government backers and rebel supporters alike roared with joy on Tuesday when Omar Al Soma scored a 93rd-minute goal, giving their...

Damascus: For the first time in Syria's conflict, sport has come to the defence of the deeply-fractured country's unity, with regime backers and...