Dozens of demonstrators were wounded in southern Iraq yesterday in clashes with police as protests over unemployment and a lack of basic services entered a second week, officials said.

A ceasefire announced by Hamas largely held yesterday after the most severe exchange of fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since a 2014 war,.

Syrian rebels and their relatives began evacuating the southern city of Daraa yesterday under a deal to bring the "cradle" of the country's uprising back under government control.

Israel and Gaza militant groups agrees a ceasefire, a Palestinian official says, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave's ruling Hamas group and gunmen fired more than 100 rockets across the border.

Two Palestinians were killed yesterday as Israel unleashed a wave of air strikes against the Gaza Strip, while scores of rockets were fired back from the Hamas-run territory.

An air strike on one of the last holdouts of the Islamic State group in Syria has killed 54 people, more than half of them civilians, a war monitor said yesterday.

The Syrian government widened its offensive to recover the southwest yesterday, extending it to an enclave held by Islamic State-affiliated fighters as Russian warplanes targeted the area, a war monitor said.

A suicide attacker blew himself up near an Afghan security forces vehicle yesterday, killing at least 12 people, mostly civilians, officials

More than two dozen pro-government fighters were killed in northwestern Syria overnight in a joint attack by rebel and Islamist forces, a

Iranians on social media mocks clerical rulers on Monday after the hardline judiciary arrested a teenage girl for posting on Instagram videos of herself dancing in her room.

The trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, charged with fraud and breach of trust, has been postponed for three

A Bangladeshi man and a security official are killed in a terrorist attack at a security checkpoint in Buraidah of northcentral Saudi Arabia.

Twenty-four people are killed when a train derailed in northwest Turkey this weekend, Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag says.

A car bombing in eastern Syria on Friday killed at least 18 people including 11 members of a US-backed force that has fought the Islamic

Iran has executed eight people convicted over two deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Tehran last year, the judiciary's

Ason of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, the group's news channel reported

At least 34 people have died after a ferry ran aground off the coast of Indonesia, according to an updated official toll yesterday. The KM

Saudi police are hunting for arsonists who torched a woman's car, only a week after the kingdom lifted a decades-long ban on female

At least five expatriate Bangladeshis are killed and 11 others injured in a road crash in the middle-eastern country of Saudi Arabia.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday departed Iran for a trip to Europe billed as of "prime importance" after the US pulled out of the