World / Middle East

  STUTTGART, Germany: A U.S. servicemember has been killed in northern Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday. "It is a combat...

  ANKARA: Turkish warplanes hit targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Monday evening, killing 18 militants, military sources...

Palestinians inspect the apartment of Palestinian assailant Zaid Amer, who is held in an Israeli prison, after it was destroyed by Israeli troops...

ANKARA: Greek Cypriots will no longer require visas to visit Turkey under an EU-Turkey agreement on visa liberalisation but this does not amount...

BEIRUT: Fighting and government shelling erupted east of Damascus overnight on Tuesday despite a temporary truce announced by the Syrian army in that...

File photo of Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir. AFP   Geneva: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir warned of the danger of the situations...

BEIRUT: More than 35 air strikes hit Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria overnight, killing at least 13 people and wounding many...

K Party and pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers scuffle during a debate at the Parliament in Ankara, Turkey late April 27, 2016....

File photo of PKK militants. AFP   ISTANBUL: Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) mililtants armed with rocket launchers and rifles attacked a military outpost in...

A billboard in one of the African nations.    Berlin: Ordinary people feel that corruption has worsened in nine Arab countries and territories over...

Riyadh: Saudi women tying the knot will now get a copy of their marriage contracts, a privilege that has been exclusive to men...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers a speech during the ceremony of receiving the Olympic torch at the UN Office at Geneva,...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is seen in silhouette following a meeting with UN Syria envoy on May 2, 2016 in Geneva....

Philip Hammond. Reuters       MEXICO CITY: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday he was deeply concerned about the state of the ceasefire...

People wave flags with pictures of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a May Day rally in Istanbul, Turkey May 1, 2016....

  Ramallah: The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the racist calls by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and settlers leaders on...

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gather at Grand Festivities Square in Baghdad's Green Zone on May 1, 2016. Haydar Hadi - AA...

  Khartoum: Sudan insisted on Monday it had "sovereign rights" over two border territories whose ownership has been the subject of a long-standing dispute...