Iraqi special forces yesterday led an operation aimed at retaking the jihadist-held town of Qayyarah, a key staging base

Regime forces and Kurdish fighters yesterday agreed to a truce in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh after a

A slim majority of both Israelis and Palestinians still favour a peace settlement with a Palestinian state alongside Israel, a new poll showed yesterday as Israeli authorities confirmed granting permission to plan the expansion of an Israeli settlement in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.

The older brother of the little Syrian boy who was pictured sitting in an ambulance dazed and covered in blood after an air strike, died

Iraq hangs 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre by Sunni jihadists and allied militants of up to 1,700 military recruits, officials say.

Syrian government warplanes were in the air again yesterday over the flashpoint northeastern city of Hasakeh, despite a US warning

Twelve people were killed in a spate of bombings against Turkish security forces blamed on Kurdish rebels who appear to have ramped up their campaign of attacks in the aftermath of the failed coup.

The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian task force in Syria amid frustration over continued fighting in the country's civil war.

A rocket fired by Yemeni rebels killed seven civilians inside Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the civil defence agency said.

The son of al-Qaeda's slain founder Osama bin Laden has urged Saudis to "overthrow" the kingdom's rulers in order

Libyan pro-government forces have cornered Islamic State group fighters in a few pockets of Sirte, but defeat there

Fate of at least 5,000 Hajj pilgrims from Bangladesh is uncertain as Hajj agencies failed to confirm their visas and plane tickets in time.

The Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen launched a probe yesterday following international condemnation of an air raid that Doctors Without Borders said killed 11 people at a hospital it supports.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday said a fair trial would represent a harsher punishment for suspected coup plotters than the death penalty -- an apparent step back from threats to re-introduce capital punishment.

Russia used Iran as a base from which to launch air strikes against Syrian militants for the first time yesterday, widening its air campaign in Syria and deepening its involvement in the Middle East.

A Palestinian teenager was shot dead yesterday during clashes with Israeli forces at Fawwar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Saudi soldiers on the front lines of the war in Yemen are getting a month's extra salary from King Salman. King Salman "has ordered

The Islamic State jihadist group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 Syrian rebel fighters in a blast near the Turkish border.

Five people have been killed in the Philippines and tens of thousands have fled from floods caused by days of

Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a