Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday, as heavy fighting resumed after the end of

The Syrian army attacked the village of Qmenas with chemical weapons in March 2015, UN experts said in a report released

Turkey hit Syrian Kurdish militia targets with rocket fires in northern Syria for the second time in less than 72 hours, the military

Up to 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a sulphur plant set ablaze during fighting with

The UN said yesterday that security concerns had forced it to delay planned evacuations from Syria's Aleppo, despite a truce

Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition have hit rebel positions outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said yesterday, after

Jihadist gunmen, some of them wearing suicide vests, attack the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an apparent effort to divert the thousands of troops and militiamen closing in on their Mosul stronghold.

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian teenager who hurled rocks at a patrol yesterday, the army said.

Turkish warplanes carried out deadly strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters, a monitor said yesterday, action that is likely to raise tensions between the Nato allies.

Indonesia, one of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, yesterday ratified the landmark climate rescue pact but

Millions of people in the Philippines were on high alert yesterday for one of the strongest typhoons to ever hit the

A 19-year-old Palestinian woman approached Israeli border police with a knife in a tense area of the West Bank

Heavy fighting rocked Yemen hours before a UN-brokered ceasefire was due to begin yesterday, as warring parties

Jihadist leaders are fleeing Mosul, a top US general in the coalition battling the Islamic State group said yesterday as Iraqi

Residents of Mosul said Islamic State was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the jihadists' stronghold.

Dozens of civilians including 12 from the same family were yesterday killed in heavy bombardment of east Aleppo

Iraqi pro-government forces have made gains at the start of a large-scale operation to retake Mosul, the last major

Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, on Sunday dissolved parliament, the official KUNA news agency

Iraqi aircraft dropped "tens of thousands" of leaflets, some bearing safety instructions for Mosul residents, ahead of an operation to retake the city from jihadists, the military said.

Around 55 people were killed in Iraq in attacks yesterday that targeted a Shia Muslim gathering, a police check-point and the family of a Sunni paramilitary leader opposed to Islamic State, according to security and medical sources.