Middle East

Each winter, camels lope around the moon-like desert landscape of the lowest place on Earth under the watchful eyes of…

Turkey’s president said Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken “total” control of the town center of Afrin, the target…

Two Israelis were killed and at least two others wounded Friday in a suspected car ramming near the Jewish settlement…

Russian military spokesman Vladimir Zolotukhin said at least 11,000 people have fled the besieged area of eastern Ghouta in Syria…

With Syria’s civil war now in its eighth year, the “Islamic State” (IS) and al-Qaida — two of the most…

Sahin Alpay, a journalist for the now defunct Zaman daily, walked out of a Turkish jail on Saturday morning after…

Air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a…

Thousands of civilians were fleeing from besieged enclaves at opposite ends of Syria on Friday as two major battles in…

The children of Kabul love the blue bus — they rush toward it every time it pulls into their street,…

Iraq’s Kurdish region on Friday commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town…