Middle East

Iraqi government forces killed the Islamic State commander of Mosul's Old City on Tuesday as the battle for the militants'…

Syria's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people…

A law to muffle mosques' amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday…

The head of the World Food Program says the agency is racing against time to prevent famine in war-scarred Yemen.Ertharin…

Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent…

Iraqi forces battling Islamic State faced tough resistance from snipers and mortar rounds on Monday as they tried to advance…

Turkey's foreign ministry on Tuesday said the European Union was exercising democratic values selectively and that it should not be…

Israel's ministry of strategic affairs said Monday it denied a prominent British boycott activist's entry into the country.Revital Yakin-Karkovsky, a…

Syrian rebel factions will not attend a new round of negotiations with government figures in the Kazakh capital, an opposition…

Russia, Turkey and Iran are pressing ahead with a fresh round of Syria talks in Kazakhstan, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat…