Bahrain yesterday executed three men found guilty of killing three policemen, sparking violent protests and stoking

The Islamic State group gained ground around a key eastern Syrian city yesterday, a monitor said, despite a heavy air

US "hostility" to Iran is growing day by day despite Tehran's nuclear deal, a senior Iranian official said yesterday, ahead

The Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh is making extensive arrangements to hold job fairs on January 30 and February 1 in Riyadh and Jeddah respectively to attract Saudi recruiting companies, reports Arab News.

The Syrian army said yesterday that Israeli missile strikes caused a series of explosions at an airbase outside

Iraqi special forces stormed the Mosul University complex in the city's northeast yesterday and pushed forward to

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called this weekend's Middle East peace conference in Paris "rigged" yesterday,

Twin Taliban blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul yesterday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 80 in a rush-hour

Iraqi forces fought their way into more districts of Mosul but advances in the city's southeast were being slowed by Islamic State's use

Iran and major powers yesterday took stock of their 2015 nuclear deal, with Donald Trump's imminent inauguration and the death of a

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in rebel-held northern Yemen yesterday killed five people including two

Morocco has banned the production and sale of burqa full-face Muslim veils, apparently for security reasons, media reports said

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian who attacked them with a knife during an overnight operation to arrest

Iran yesterday said it had finally received an official invitation from Saudi Arabia for its pilgrims to attend this year's hajj, two weeks after

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in rebel-held northern Yemen kills five people including two children, medical and military sources say.

Iran began three days of mourning yesterday after the death of ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pillar of the Islamic revolution

An assault involving a car bomb against an Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed seven policeman and a civilian

Iraqi forces will retake east Mosul from the jihadists within days, a top commander said yesterday, after his fighters in the city reached

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with French media aired yesterday that his forces are on the road to victory after

Algerian Member of Parliament and former media personality Zahia Benarous reveals that late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi proposed to her in the 1990s but she turned him down, according to Al Arabiya, a Middle Eastern news website.