Middle East

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that his country remains steadfast after four and a half years of crisis, thanks…

Iranian pro-democracy activists, lawyers and artists have thrown their weight behind last month's nuclear deal with world powers, hoping it…

Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State insurgents in a cluster of villages in Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, bent…

Arab foreign and defense ministers will sign a protocol for the creation of a joint defense force on Thursday, as the…

South Sudanese soldiers raped children, burned people alive in their homes and hunted others for days in swamps in an…

On the second anniversary of the notorious Ghouta chemical massacre in Syria, survivors recount what happened on that fateful day. Syrian…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was on Tuesday given the task of forming a provisional administration in the run-up to…

Three people were killed in clashes overnight and into Tuesday morning between rival armed groups in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp,…

Gas giant Qatar is becoming commercially sharper, using traders and tenders to grab new customers, and fighting to hold on…

A Hamas military court in the Gaza Strip on Monday sentenced a Palestinian to death for allegedly providing information to…