Middle East

Afghanistan’s telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram…

Syrian government forces will advance soon to take Raqqa city, which US-backed fighters seized from Islamic State last month, a…

Amnesty International’s Turkey director, freed from four months detention but still facing trial on terrorism charges, said the case against…

Iraqi forces have entered al-Qaim, one of the last remaining territories in the country still held by Islamic State militants,…

A Palestinian militant group said on Friday that five of its members had been killed earlier this week when Israel…

The United States has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution that would extend by two years the mandate of…

Syrian state media say the army has liberated the eastern city of Deir el-Zour from the Islamic State group. Friday’s…

A Libyan armed group will not extradite the brother of the Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an…

Switzerland’s defense ministry has admitted sending staff to test reconnaissance drones in contested land held by Israel – an embarrassing…

A senior Israeli minister on Thursday declined to comment on reports that Israeli aircraft had struck a target in Syria…