Middle East

Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against militants in Syria's Aleppo, Russian news agencies…

The European Union should grant Turks visa-free travel in October or the migrant deal that involves Turkey stemming the flow…

Yemeni army forces backed by Arab coalition aircraft killed about 40 suspected al Qaeda fighters on Sunday as they fought…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in…

Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, on Thursday lost a bid to overturn…

Rebel gains which have broken a Syrian government siege in the city of Aleppo will strengthen the opposition's hand should…

A Yemeni expatriate who killed a policeman in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday by running him over with his car and…

The leader of Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike on July 26,…

Iraq's offensive to dislodge Islamic State from its de facto capital Mosul is on track despite a spat between two…

The whitewashed dome of a Sufi shrine in the Yemeni city of Taiz gleamed for centuries until a band of…