BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the government offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants was in its...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the government offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants was in its...
Washington: Moscow has apparently deployed military forces to a base in western Egypt, a US official said Tuesday, a sign Russia could be...
BEIRUT: Water has reached a pumping station inside Aleppo and will "soon" go out to residential districts in the city, Syrian state media...
Mosul, Iraq: Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, which has not been operational since jihadists siezed the city but...
Hamam Al-Alil, Iraq: A sea of tents stretches to the horizon at a camp for displaced near Mosul but Ahmed Hassan says he...
CAIRO: An Egyptian military source on Tuesday denied reports about the deployment of Russian Special Forces to an airbase in western Egypt. U.S....
HOMS, Syria: Opposition forces are gearing up to depart from the Al-Waer district of Syria’s western Homs province amid repeated cease-fire violations by...
Ankara: Turkey on Tuesday hit back at the EU after the bloc criticised Ankara over a spiralling diplomatic spat with the Netherlands. "The...
Somali pirates are suspected to have hijacked a Sri Lankan-flagged fuel freighter after the ship sent a distress call, turned off its tracking...
CAIRO: The Egyptian authorities have thwarted 24 separate cases of attempted antiquities theft within the last week alone, according to a local security...
Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held today a telephone conversation with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu. The Russian Foreign Ministry...
Cairo: An Egyptian prosecutor allowed Monday for Hosni Mubarak to be released, his lawyer said, after an appeals court acquitted the ex-president of...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels have agreed to leave the Homs district of al-Waer with their families over the next few weeks, opposition media said...
ANKARA: Thirty terrorists were killed, 35 others were captured and five more surrendered during the last one week in Turkey, the Interior Ministry...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Three PKK terrorists were captured during ongoing operations in eastern Turkey on Sunday, according to military and regional governor’s office Monday....
Beirut: Syrian rebel factions will not attend a new round of negotiations with government figures in the Kazakh capital, an opposition delegation spokesman...
Aleppo, Syria: When the army recaptured Aleppo in December, Mohammad Baqdul left Beirut and returned with his family to his native city, convinced...
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man, who allegedly stabbed two soldiers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, according to Israeli police....
