World / Middle East

SIRNAK, Turkey: Two soldiers succumbed to their wounds at a state hospital in southeastern Sirnak province on Sunday, according to a security source....

Ramallah: The joint media committee of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee said underlined that the Israeli Occupation Prison Authority...

Jerusalem:  Israel signed an agreement with China on Sunday to bring in 6,000 Chinese construction workers as the country seeks to address a...

Bosasso: A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia's semi autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers and injuring...

IDLIB, Syria: At least seven civilians were killed in a Russian airstrike in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, according to a local...

BEIRUT: The Syrian army and allied forces advanced against rebels in western Syria near Hama city on Sunday, building on recent strategic gains...

MOSUL, Iraq: Three policemen were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack south of Mosul, the northern Iraqi city where Islamic State is...

CAIRO: The political arm of Gamaa Islamiya, a former militant group in Egypt, has floated an initiative for halting violence in the restive...

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 90 civilians were reportedly killed in deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants in western Mosul. An...

Ramallah: Israeli occupation forces arrested Sunday 11 Palestinians from different parts of the West Bank. A security source told Palestinian news agency (WAFA)...

ANKARA: Turkey’s government-run General Directorate for State Hydraulic Works is providing Sudan with equipment to deal with an acute water shortage. This week,...

Tehran: Election season is under way in Iran and the rumour mill is in overdrive as the public tries to divine the backroom...

Damascus: An Israeli attack on a Syrian camp for pro-government forces killed three fighters near the Golan Heights on Sunday, an official from...

Ramallah: A Palestinian child was shot dead by Israeli settlers in the Kerem area of Hebron, south of the West Bank. Palestinian medical...

ALEPPO/ANKARA: At least four civilians were killed and another 25 injured in regime airstrikes on Syria’s northern Aleppo province on Saturday, according to...

IDLIB, Syria: Around 150 Syrian families who have survived the April 4 chemical attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun are seeking...

Ramallah: The open-ended mass hunger strike launched by more than 1500 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation jails has entered its sixth day...

BEIRUT: Lebanon's army said it arrested ten suspected members of militant groups on Saturday after they came over the northeastern border from Syria,...