Middle East

Islamic State militants have abducted dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province…

Christian clerics prayed in the ruins of a monastery not far from jihadist positions in northern Iraq Thursday to mark…

More than 240,000 people, including 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria's conflict which broke out in March 2011, a…

A commercial airliner landed Thursday at Aden's international airport, its director said, the first civilian plane to touch down in…

A suicide bomb attack on in a mosque in Abha city in south west Saudi Arabia killed 17 people on…

Iran and Turkey must work with one another to root out the threat of extremism in the region, President Hassan…

First a suicide bomber kills three Libyan soldiers at a checkpoint in the eastern city of Benghazi. When the army…

School holidays are a bad idea, at least when it comes to children's spelling and arithmetic in the short term,…

Libya will import electricity from Egypt and Tunisia and rent generators as it struggles with power outages that have plunged…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has accepted an invitation to visit Rome, Italy's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in what would…