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Syria army overruns Idlib crossroads town
Feb 08, 2020
DAMASCUS — The Syrian army took control of a strategic northwestern crossroads town on Saturday, its latest gain in a weeks-long military op ...
Libya a 'den of mercenaries', say war-weary citizens
Feb 06, 2020
TRIPOLI — After 10 months of fighting that has torn their country apart, exhausted Libyans voice deep fears and say their fate is no longer ...
Iraq protesters defiant as they bury 7 killed in overnight clash
Feb 06, 2020
NAJAF, Iraq — Young Iraqi protesters pushed on with anti-government rallies across the country on Thursday as they buried seven fellow activ ...
Three Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in West Bank
Feb 06, 2020
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Three Palestinians were shot dead in the occupied West Bank, in rising violence following Washington's controversial Mi ...
Iraq PM-designate meets anti-government protesters
Feb 05, 2020
BAGHDAD — Iraq's premier-designate Mohammad Allawi has met with dozens of representatives of the protest movement rocking the capital and Sh ...
Shooting, gas shortages in Kurdish Iraq over contract spat
Feb 05, 2020
BAGHDAD — A dispute between companies transporting liquefied petroleum gas across Iraq's northern Kurdish region has escalated into arm ...
Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in West Bank confrontations
Feb 05, 2020
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories — A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire during a protest in the southern West Bank on Wednesday, ...
Syrian army presses offensive despite Turkish warning
Feb 05, 2020
BEIRUT — The Syrian army on Wednesday pressed on with their offensive in the northwest that has displaced half a million people, despite hei ...
'Syria violence displaces 500,000 in two months'
Feb 04, 2020
HAZANO, Syria — Weeks of violence in Syria's last rebel enclave has caused one of the biggest waves of displacement in the nine-year-old unr ...
Libya rivals agree to turn truce into lasting ceasefire — UN
Feb 04, 2020
GENEVA — Representatives of the warring parties in Libya meeting in Geneva have agreed on the principle of turning their shaky truce into a ...
US air war has a name: ‘Operation Inherent Resolve’
Oct 15, 2014
Saudi Arabia sentences outspoken Shiite cleric to death — brother
Oct 15, 2014
Turkish Airlines investigates Arabic engine inscriptions after staff scare
Oct 15, 2014
Expect progress, setbacks in fight against IS — Obama
Oct 15, 2014
US-led air strikes intensify in Syria
Oct 14, 2014
Ex-colleague kills American in Saudi capital
Oct 14, 2014
Group that seized Tripoli takes Libyan government, oil company websites
Oct 14, 2014
Europe examining ways to press Israel over settlements — diplomats
Oct 14, 2014
British MPs pass non-binding vote to recognise Palestine
Oct 14, 2014
Yemen names new PM in fresh bid to end crisis
Oct 13, 2014
Iraq forces at critical juncture as Anbar teeters
Oct 13, 2014
Lebanon to postpone parliamentary poll to 2017 — minister
Oct 13, 2014
French tourists avoid Tunisia after traveller’s beheading in nearby Algeria
Oct 13, 2014
No new deal with US on using airbase — Turkey
Oct 13, 2014
Gulf states could expand anti-IS combat role — experts
Oct 12, 2014
Yemen’s crisis reflects arc of Arab Spring revolts
Oct 12, 2014
US general sees bigger role ‘advising and assisting’ Iraqi forces
Oct 12, 2014
Israelis and Palestinians join forces to combat Ebola
Oct 12, 2014
Worried Iraqi capital sees militant push around it
Oct 11, 2014
Somalia to halt banned charcoal trade at port recaptured from Al Shabab
Oct 11, 2014
‘Iran nuclear talks could be extended again’
Oct 11, 2014
Bahrain opposition confirms it will boycott election
Oct 11, 2014

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