Middle East

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…

Without providing any evidence to support the claim, the Islamic State group on Monday said the gunman in the mass…

Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah on Tuesday chaired his first meeting of the Palestinian cabinet in Gaza in a move towards…

Russia’s military says its airstrikes in eastern Syria this week killed more than 300 Islamic State militants. Russia has been…