Middle East

Sahin Alpay, a journalist for the now defunct Zaman daily, walked out of a Turkish jail on Saturday morning after…

Air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a…

Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves at opposite ends of Syria on Friday as two major battles in…

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…