World / Middle East

Tunis: UN envoy Bernardino Leon insisted Wednesday that efforts to clinch a political deal to end the turmoil in Libya will carry on...

By Andrew Torchia DUBAI:  The International Monetary Fund may provide a large loan to Iraq in 2016 to help stabilise the country's finances...

Paris: Kuwait signed 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 bn) worth of military fixed and provisional deals led by the purchase of 24 Airbus-built Caracal...

RIYADH: Obesity and diabetes threaten Gulf states' economic health as well as human wellbeing, Saudi Arabia's health minister has said, as the region...

Hebron: Israeli soldiers shot and killed two boys, aged 15 and 17 years old, in Hebron's Old City Tuesday night, claiming that the...

Moscow: President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday evening made his first foreign visit since Syria's war broke out in 2011, and held talks with...

    New York: The Islamic State group may dominate headlines about the destruction of heritage sites in Syria, but it is far from the...

  Rabat: Pulling carts piled high with plastic bottles or rummaging through unofficial dumpsites, informal trash collectors abound on the streets of Morocco. Dubbed...

JERUSALEM:UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday warned against any misuse of force as he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in...

  PARIS: A group of Arab states has angered Israel by submitting a draft resolution to the UN cultural body stating that Jerusalem's Western...

WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Europe and the Middle East from Wednesday to Sunday for talks on a recent...

Washington: The US military has deployed a dozen A-10 ground-attack planes to the air base at Incirlik in southern Turkey, a US official...

BAGHDAD: The number of cholera cases in Iraq has risen to more than 1,800 as the epidemic spread to the northern autonomous Kurdish...

Jerusalem: UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned of a "dangerous escalation" and urged Israelis and Palestinians to move quickly to calm nearly three weeks...

By Daren Butler and Seyhmus Cakan ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR:  A top Kurdish lawyer in conflict-riven southeast Turkey faces trial after saying the Kurdistan Workers Party...

Algiers: Algerian soldiers killed three Islamist gunmen on Tuesday during a sweep of a region east of the capital where Al-Qaeda has a...

Jerusalem: A man slammed his car into two Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank Tuesday before being shot and killed, police said,...

Jerusalem: An Israeli was run over by a vehicle and killed on Tuesday when he got out of his car on a West...