Middle East

At least 7,962 people have been killed and 17,811 wounded in violence in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, the U.N.…

Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip have warned of the dangers of an Egyptian plan to flood the Egypt-Gaza border…

Iran is willing to sit down with its rivals to discuss the crisis in Syria, President Hassan Rouhani said on…

 Ten police officers were killed in a bomb attack on a minibus in a Turkish province bordering Armenia and Iran…

British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Monday to take in up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five…

 Israel's parliament on Monday approved a controversial deal that would enable the development of three offshore natural gas fields, although…

Qatar has sent around 1,000 ground troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera television said on Monday, their first reported involvement…

 Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a…

Cyprus said rescuers on Sunday saved more than 100 refugees fleeing the war in Syria after their boat ran into…

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denied allegations by other Palestinian factions – including rival movement Fatah – that it is…