World / Middle East

COLUMN: A year after nuclear deal, sanctions still hurt Iran 14 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Iran President Hassan Rouhani. REUTERS / Faisal Mahmood By Amir Handjani It has been one year since Iran, the United States and five...

Are Egypt, Syria next in Turkey rapprochement drive? 13 Jul 2016 - 04:59 pm

Turkish Prime Minister and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Binali Yildirim gestures as he delivers a speech during the...

Islamic State car bomb attack kills seven north of Baghdad 13 Jul 2016 - 04:09 pm

Iraqi men inspect the site of a suicide bomb attack, claimed by the Islamic State group, at a checkpoint leading to the Husseiniyah...

France shuts missions in Turkey for security reasons 13 Jul 2016 - 03:25 pm

A general view of the French Consulate in Istanbul. (AFP / OZAN KOSE) ANKARA, Turkey: France on Wednesday said it had closed its...

Decade after war with Israel, another war batters Hezbollah 13 Jul 2016 - 01:10 am

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam In front-line villages of south Lebanon, the posters of Hezbollah members killed fighting Israel 10 years ago...

Uganda, Djibouti censured by ICC for failure to arrest Bashir 13 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir addresses top officials during a meeting on August 21, 2015 in Khartoum. AFP / Ashraf Shazly The Hague: The...

Three quarters of South Sudanese need humanitarian aid: UN 13 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Amman: Three-quarters of the population of South Sudan needs humanitarian aid after four days of deadly fighting, the UN's World Food Programme director...

Iran summons French ambassador over dissident meeting in Paris 13 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

The Paris rally was addressed by Prince Turki al-Faisal, former chief of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, who openly supported MKO’s struggle against the...

Iraq calls for demo reprieve over security concerns 13 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

The appeal was issued a day after powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called the for a "massive" protest on Friday in Baghdad's Tahrir...

Saudi prosecutors bring charges over Grand Mosque crane disaster -newspaper 12 Jul 2016 - 11:25 am

In this image released by the Saudi Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Civil Defense, Defense personnel inspect the damage at the Grand Mosque...

Families of US-Israeli victims sue Facebook over Palestinian attacks 12 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Bilal Abu Ghanem (C), a Palestinian man convicted of shooting and stabbing passengers on a bus on October 13, 2015 in east Jerusalem,...

Rebels attack government lines in Syria’s Aleppo after supply road cut 12 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

A Syrian boy stands in front of an empty vegetable market in the rebel-held area of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on...

Algeria blogger gets 2-year jail term for insulting president 12 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

Mohamed Tamalt, who lives in London, was arrested in June during a visit to Algiers on charges of “offending the president of the...

Syrian army extends nationwide ceasefire for 72 hours: state media 12 Jul 2016 - 12:00 am

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 11, 2016 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a...

U.S. to send more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul offensive 11 Jul 2016 - 05:02 pm

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi (R) meeting with US Pentagon chief Ashton Carter in Baghdad on July 11, 2016. (Iraq Prime Minister's Press...

Iran indicts three dual-nationals, Lebanese man: Judiciary 11 Jul 2016 - 03:18 pm

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the United Nations headquarters. (Reuters) By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA: Iran's judiciary has indicted three detained Iranian...

Verdict on dissolving Bahrain opposition due next week 11 Jul 2016 - 12:07 pm

Anti-government protesters shout slogans while holding Bahraini flags during a protest outside Bahrain's leading opposition party Al Wefaq's headquarters in Manama in this...

Egypt foreign minister meets Israel PM in rare visit 10 Jul 2016 - 06:12 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry after giving a joint statement prior to their meeting...