World / Middle East

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces arrested a senior Fatah member Wednesday morning, the Palestinian faction has said in a statement. Israeli forces arrested Talal Dweikat,...

ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Wednesday remanded in custody 60 businesspeople over alleged links with the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), a network accused...

ANKARA: At least 12 Islamic State targets were destroyed in northern Syria on Tuesday as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, according to the...

ANKARA: At least 11 Islamic State terrorists were killed in northern Syria in the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Operation...

JERUSALEM: Palestinian Muslim leaders have warned that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would be...

SIIRT, Turkey: Turkish police have neutralized two PKK terrorists in a clash in southeastern Turkey’s Siirt province, the security sources said early Wednesday....

ANKARA: Turkish warplanes destroyed 14 PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq Tuesday night, a military source said Wednesday. The airstrikes took place in...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories:  Dozens of Palestinians protested in Gaza on Monday over ongoing electricity shortages, the latest in a series of demonstrations...

Riyadh: (AP)Lebanon's newly elected president met yesterday with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi...

Dubai: Hundreds of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran yesterday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an influential figurehead...

Ankara: Police yesterday killed an assailant who tried to attack the police station in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, near the border with...

Dubai: An Australian man abducted in Yemen has appeared in a video asking his government to meet the demands of his unidentified kidnappers,...

Last Friday, the Israeli government announced that it had suspended $6m in funding to the United Nations (UN), a move described as “an...

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian leaders on Tuesday called for prayers at mosques across the Middle East this week to protest plans by President-elect...

DAMASCUS: More than 1,000 families have recently left their homes east of capital Damascus for safer areas amid ongoing ceasefire violations by the...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: The bodies of two soldiers martyred during the battle to take the Syrian town of Al-Bab have been returned to Turkey,...

Cairo:  The Arab League's Special Envoy on Libya Salah Eddin Al-Jamali proposed today at one of the council's meetings establishing an Arab fund...

Sanaa: An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in rebel-held northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two...