Middle East

Russia said on Wednesday it had critically injured the leader of the Tahrir al-Sham militant group in Syria after launching…

Flags flew at half-staff across Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region on Wednesday as Iraqi Kurds began observing a week of…

US Defense Secretary Mattis has said it would be against US security interests to withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord.…

Up to 78,000 people could be trapped in Islamic State-held Hawija in northern Iraq, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as…

Kurdish officials say former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83. A…

Israel’s prime minister has pledged to build thousands of new housing units in the West Bank’s biggest Jewish settlement and…

Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, the Erbil-based Rudaw TV said on…

France’s interior minister said on Tuesday police had arrested a number of people after the discovery of an explosive device…

Pakistan’s ruling party on Tuesday re-elected ousted premier Nawaz Sharif as its leader, saying he was “back with full force”,…

Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday met with Qatar’s ruling emir as a quartet of Arab states continues its boycott of…