Middle East

  A major insurgent-held town in southwestern Syria has accepted the return of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, pro-government media and…

  Iran is studying ways to keep exporting oil and other measures to counter US economic sanctions, state news agency…

  A string of Syrian rebel-held towns and villages accepted government rule on Saturday as insurgent lines collapsed in parts…

Around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libya’s western coast, a coastguard official said…

  Turkish journalist Mehmet Altan was released from prison on Wednesday, one of his lawyers said, four months after he…

  The UN Syria envoy warned on Wednesday of a full-scale battle in the country’s southwest, an area covered by…

  South Sudan President Salva Kiir and arch-foe Riek Machar agreed Wednesday to a “permanent” ceasefire to take effect within…

  Israeli aircraft and a tank struck a vehicle belonging to an operative of the Islamist Hamas faction that dominates…

  Syria’s army launched an assault on the flashpoint southern city of Daraa Tuesday, state media said, after a week…

  The Syrian army has seized a chunk of territory from rebels in the southwest, Syrian state media and a…