Middle East

Some 26,000 people have fled in the 10 days since Iraqi forces launched a push to retake west Mosul, amid fierce clashes between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State of…

Syria’s air force carried out the September 2016 raid that killed at least 10 aid workers in Aleppo province by deliberately targeting a humanitarian convoy, a U.N.-backed probe said on…

Israeli soldier Elor Azaria is embraced by his mother at the start of is sentencing hearing at a military court in Tel Aviv An Israeli soldier who was sentenced to…

File photo: A view shows the damage at Fakhreddin’s Castle known as Palmyra Castle on the outskirts of the historic city of Palmyra Russian-backed Syrian government forces and their allies…

REUTERS photo Hundreds of civilians fled through the desert yesterday to escape fighting and privation in Mosul, joining thousands of others who left their homes as conditions worsen in the…

Turkish President Erdogan speaks during a news conference at Ataturk International airport in Istanbul President Tayyip Erdogan publicly criticised prominent Turkish newspaper Hurriyet on Tuesday, sending its shares and those…

Pro-settlement activists scuffle with Israeli policemen during an operation by Israeli forces to evict residents from several homes in the Israeli settlement of Ofra, in the occupied West Bank Israeli…

Several more rounds of Syrian peace talks will be needed to reach any accord, the U.N. envoy bidding to kick start the sputtering process has told the rival sides, setting…

DHA photo Five people were murdered per day across Turkey in 2016, according to a report from the Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command. Firearms were used the most in…

Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in west Mosul reached the city’s southernmost bridge on Feb. 27, a key step in efforts to defeat…