Middle East

US-backed Syrian forces repelled a major counter-attack by Islamic State militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in…

Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an air strike…

A large fire broke out early Sunday at a high-rise complex under construction near Dubai's largest shopping mall, sending thick…

Iraq's oil minister says the country plans to increase daily crude oil production to 5 million barrels by the end…

Syrian state TV says scores of opposition fighters and their families have left the central city of Homs after being…

Iran's hard-liners are hoping they can benefit from the election of US President Donald Trump, arguing that their own country…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is disappointed and alarmed by Israel's decision to build a new settlement on land the…

The Palestinians and the United Nations on Friday condemned the Israeli cabinet's approval of the first officially sanctioned new settlement…

The number of people fleeing Syria's civil war to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt has passed the 5 million…

Syrian engineers and Red Crescent officials on Wednesday visited a spillway of a key dam west of the Islamic State…