A suicide car bomb attack in a densely-populated neighbourhood of Baghdad yesterday killed at least 32 people and left dozens

Fighting in parts of Syria yesterday threatened a shaky ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey, whose efforts to

One of the revellers at the Istanbul nightclub which came under attack during New Year celebrations described the

An attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a police checkpoint in southern Iraq left at least seven people dead

Saudi Arabia carried out 153 executions in 2016, according to an AFP, slightly down from the year before. The ultra-

Iraqi forces have retaken more than 60 percent of eastern Mosul from the Islamic State group since the battle for the city began

Twin blasts ripped through a busy market area in central Baghdad yesterday, police said, shattering a relative lull in attacks in the

The Pentagon said Friday it believes that Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is indeed alive, despite repeated efforts by the US-led

A drone strike in Yemen likely carried out by US forces on Thursday killed a local al-Qaeda chief and his guard, a security official said.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Thursday said all jihadists returning from foreign battlefields would be immediately arrested

Saudi Arabia has invited regional rival Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year's hajj after Iranians were excluded from the

Azerbaijani forces yesterday killed three Armenian troops in the latest border clash between the neighbours locked in a

Israel's attorney-general has ordered police to open a criminal investigation in two unspecified matters involving Prime

Iraqi security forces yesterday began the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State militants in Mosul, pushing into

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Israel's building of settlements on occupied land is jeopardizing Middle East peace, voicing unusually frank frustration with America's longtime ally weeks before he is due to leave office.

An air strike has disabled the last bridge linking eastern and western Mosul, a city Iraqi forces are fighting to retake from jihadists,

The bodies of 11 migrants who died trying to make the perilous journey to Europe have washed up on beaches around Libya's capital

Russia said yesterday that a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-

A Saudi man has been jailed for one year for calling for an end to the Muslim kingdom's guardianship system that gives men wide

The shock announcement of Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot to seek asylum in the US has touched off a spirited national