Middle East

The children of Kabul love the blue bus — they rush toward it every time it pulls into their street,…

Iraq’s Kurdish region on Friday commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town…

All personnel aboard a US military helicopter carrying American service members were killed in a crash in western Iraq, the…

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday around 2,000 people had left Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta district on Friday morning,…

The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians…

Syrian troops and government-linked militia have systematically used rape and sexual violence against civilians, atrocities that amount to crimes against…

Saudi Arabia will develop a nuclear bomb if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom’s 32-year-old crown prince said in…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said 25 aid trucks were waiting to enter Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta…

Iraqi authorities have said they will end a six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the region’s…

Acclaimed Lebanese author and feminist Emily Nasrallah, who articulated women’s experiences in her writing about Lebanon’s civil war, has died…