Middle East

A year after its establishment, the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq remains well-funded and heavily armed,…

Bahrain released at dawn on Saturday a Sunni opposition leader who was jailed more than four years for involvement in…

Ten members of Tunisia's diplomatic staff kidnapped in Libya a week ago have been freed and returned to Tunis on…

France's foreign minister heads to the Middle East this weekend with an initiative aimed at bringing Israel and the Palestinians…

The United Nations said on Friday that $1.6 billion was now needed to face a "looming catastrophe" in Yemen where…

A fire has damaged part of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish in Tabgha in northern…

In the year since it declared its "caliphate," the Islamic State group has become the world's most infamous jihadist organisation,…

Bahrain said on Thursday it had seized explosives and bomb-making materials planned for use in Bahrain and neighboring Saudi Arabia…

Four car bombs which struck mosques in Sanaa and the headquarters of Yemen's dominant Houthi movement on Wednesday killed two…

According to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s political advisor, Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah submitted his resignation on Wednesday. Nemer Hammad was quoted…