World / Middle East

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...

ANKARA: Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Tuesday everyone needed to “open their eyes” to two global threats: terrorism and migration. Speaking in...

Sintgaing, Myanmar: Twenty-one farmers were granted bail by a Myanmar court on Tuesday after being jailed over a land-grab dispute with the military...

NEW YORK: The funeral of Osman Bayezid Osmanoglu, the head of the family that ruled the Ottoman Empire for more than 600 years,...

VAN, Turkey: A court in eastern province of Van Tuesday remanded in custody a local official of the opposition People's Democratic Party (HDP)...

ANKARA: Turkey is uniquely qualified to play a leading role in resolving the crisis in Iraq and Syria to improve the stability in...

CAIRO: At least nine Egyptian policemen were killed Monday -- and another ten injured -- when a massive truck bomb exploded at a...

ISTANBUL: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has voiced his readiness to send representatives to planned peace talks in Astana later this month with a...

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki arrived in Baghdad on Monday for talks with Iraqi officials, according to an Iraqi cabinet source. "The Jordanian...