Middle East

UN representatives in Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate cessation of hostilities lasting at least month throughout Syria to…

The Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria at the weekend commit suicide with a grenade before he could be captured…

The corridors are dark in Lebanon’s Public Transport and Railway Administration. A few employees scroll through mobile phones in mostly…

A Palestinian man wanted over the murder last month of a rabbi near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank…

In mid-January, a delegation from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) traveled to Washington, seeking to convince the CIA to resume the…

A group of young Afghan women in the deeply conservative western Herat province is breaking traditional barriers as their war-torn…

Guards at the presidential office complex in Tehran shot at and wounded a man carrying a sword and trying to…

Air strikes killed 23 people in Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta district, just outside Damascus, a war monitor reported, and a…

The Iraqis who have come home to Mosul’s Old City knew it would be hard living in the rubble left…

Russia has ordered its warplanes in Syria to fly higher to avoid being shot down by shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles…