Middle East

Islamic State posted photographs online which it said were taken in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and appeared to…

Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad bin Suhaim, a Qatari citizen who belongs to the ruling family in Qatar, has resigned from…

The Arab ministerial committee responsible for monitoring the Palestine file in the United Nations will meet in Cairo with the…

Two Saudi border guards have been killed and five others wounded by shellfire on the frontier with Yemen, official media…

Hamas has called on Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing, labelling the demand a “political and humanitarian cause”. Hamas’s political…

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has renewed confidence in Kuwait as the head of the foreign ministers council at the…

A Syrian Kurdish militia has captured a town from Islamic State in the northeast, a group monitoring the war reported on…

Air strikes on a military base in the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed at least 40 people and wounded 100 on…

Israeli aircraft struck a number of sites in the Gaza Strip from the air early on Wednesday, residents and the…

The number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year overtook the total for all of 2014 on Tuesday, despite…