Beirut: Islamic State group fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, a monitor said Thursday, but government forces...
Beirut: Islamic State group fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, a monitor said Thursday, but government forces...
Tunis: A group of visitors at a Tunisia zoo has stoned a crocodile to death, authorities in the capital said Wednesday, denouncing the...
Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, marks his 80th birthday on Thursday...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A bomb in Somali capital Mogadishu killed an intelligence official and left three civilians injured on Wednesday, police said. Police Capt....
ISTANBUL: Turkish municipalities revealed on Wednesday that nearly four percent of Istanbul’s population are Syrian refugees. The Marmara Municipalities’ Union published a report...
Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a settler whose home he broke into in the occupied West Bank before the Israeli shot him...
Damascus: Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group in the ancient city of Palmyra and restored in Italy have been returned...
Beirut: Heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels has shaken several Damascus suburbs, leaving 13 regime fighters dead, a monitoring group said...
ISTANBUL: A film looking into the life of civil defense volunteers in war-torn Syria has won an Oscar for best short documentary. “We...
BEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said on Wednesday, as...
Baghdad: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from jihadists,...
GENEVA: Almost 1,500 children have been killed and a similar number recruited by the warring sides in the Yemeni conflict, the UN said...
SANAA, Yemen: The Shia Houthi militia group has blocked Stephen O'Brien, a senior UN official, from entering Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz to...
GENEVA: The head of the opposition delegation at Syria peace talks in Geneva, Nasr al-Hariri, said that regime proposals for establishing a national...
MARDIN, Turkey: Turkish security forces killed three PKK terrorists in a clash in the southeastern Mardin province, the governor’s office said Tuesday. Three...
London: UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson criticized Russia and China for vetoing against a UN Security Council resolution that imposed new sanctions on...
Cairo: Top Muslim and Christian clerics from the Middle East gathered in Cairo on Tuesday for a two-day conference on promoting co-existence, as...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: A senior Palestinian official has been denied entry to Egypt, prompting a Palestinian delegation to withdraw in protest from a...
