World / Middle East

File picture of a Turkish soldier on border as smoke rises in Syria. Reuters  DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Turkey's military returned fire into an Islamic...

A Syrian man walks past destroyed buildings on May 2, 2016, in Aleppo's Bab al-Hadid neighbourhood which was targeted recently by regime air...

Egyptian journalists take part in a protest outside the Syndicate headquarters in Cairo on May 3, 2016 on the occasion of World Press...

US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 30, 2013. AFP / Saul Loeb   Israel...

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE. "Although they could not attribute this to Daesh... there are strong suspicions that they may have used it (chemical weapons)," Ahmet...

Palestinian protesters hold placards depicting portraits of Mohammed Abu Khdeir outside the district court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2016 as a life...

A Palestinian protester remonstrates with an Israeli police officer outside the Jerusalem District Court, during the sentencing of Yosef Ben David for the...

Staffan de Mistura (L) , UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Syria and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) hold a joint press conference...

Moqtada al-Sadr speaks during news conference in Najaf, south of Baghdad, March 22, 2016. REUTERS / Alaa Al-Marjani     By Mohamad Bazzi For years...

  Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of "repercussions" if his regime flouts a new ceasefire...

Members from the Iraqi Kurdish and Turkmen Shiite forces walk in the northern Iraqi town of Bashir after they recaptured the town from...

Beirut: Heavy air strikes throughout the night on the Islamic State group's de facto Syria capital Raqa killed 19 civilians and 10 jihadists,...

  By Saleha Allam CAIRO: The Egyptian Press Syndicate in Cairo decided to lower its flag and replace it with black banners, just days...

  TEHRAN: More than 300 Iranian academics have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani criticizing the “army’s intervention in politics”, according to Iran-based...

Iraqi soldiers fire artillery towards Islamic State positions from a location outside Makhmour, Iraq. (Alice Martins / The Washington Post)   By Loveday Morris...

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters observe the front line with Islamic State, in Gwar, northern Iraq September 23, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File Photo Washington: The Islamic...

Abu Ammar leader in Ahrar al-Sham Syrian opposition group By Levent Tok and Selen Temizer ALEPPO, Syria: The deputy commander of the Ahrar...

  BEIRUT: The death toll from rebel shelling of government-held areas of Aleppo on Tuesday climbed to at least 19 people including three children,...