Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

Saudi Arabia rejected US President Donald Trump's recognition Monday of Syria's Golan Heights as Israeli territory condemning it as a

The death toll of floods that have swept across most Iranian provinces has risen to 18 with more than 70 injured, the country's

Syria's Kurds yesterday called for an international court to be set up in the country to try suspected Islamic State group jihadists following the announced fall of their "caliphate".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to the United States yesterday and the military dispatched reinforcements to the Gaza border after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people.

Ten children, part of the same extended family, were killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan, along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said yesterday.

Syria's Kurds yesterday warned that despite the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate", the thousands of foreign jihadists they hold

US-backed fighters say they have captured Islamic State's last shred of ground in eastern Syria - but while its era of territorial rule may be over for now, there is near universal agreement that IS remains a threat.

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the enclave said.

Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week

2004-11: In the chaos following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, an al-Qaeda offshoot sets up there, changing its name in 2006 to Islamic State in Iraq.

Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, died Thursday as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sank in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq's worst accident in years.

Kurdish-led forces yesterday combed the banks of the Euphrates in eastern Syria to smoke out the last jihadists preventing the much-delayed announcement of the demise of the Islamic State's "caliphate".

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in clashes near a flashpoint religious site in the occupied West Bank overnight yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo yesterday sought to bolster a united front against Iran during a Middle East tour that will include talks

Their battle against the last jihadists holding out in the besieged Syrian village of Baghouz hasn't quite ended but Kurdish-led fighters have already started celebrating.

At least two Bangladeshi expatriates working in Saudi Arabia were killed while another was injured in a road accident on the Riyadh-Dammam Highway.

At least 50 members of the Afghan security forces have surrendered to the Taliban in a fight for control of Afghanistan's western

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said yesterday over 60,000 people, mostly civilians, had flooded out of Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria since a final assault to capture it began over two months ago.

Israel said yesterday its aircraft had struck dozens of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rockets from the Palestinian enclave, including rare fire toward its economic capital Tel Aviv.