Israel yesterday said it had arrested and charged a United Nations employee for allegedly providing "material

A Saudi-led military coalition conducted air strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday for the first time in five

Syrian regime forces and rebel factions sent hundreds of reinforcements to Aleppo yesterday as opposition fighters announced an all-out offensive to take the country's second city.

Syrian regime forces were on the defensive around Aleppo yesterday after a rebel alliance said it inflicted a major setback by breaking a three-week government siege of the battered city.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to maintain his "shoot-to-kill" order against drug dealers while in

The UN suspended talks between Yemen's warring parties yesterday after the Iran-backed Shia rebels and their allies appointed a council to run the country in a blow to the peace process.

Turkey has dismissed 167 staff from its Scientific and Technological Research Council (Tubitak) as a purge of state

Indonesian police yesterday arrested six suspected militants over an Islamic State-linked plot to fire a rocket at an

Members of the US-led coalition have been accused of deploying a “scorched earth policy” in Syria by activists who claim to have documented scores of civilian deaths.

Iran yesterday said it had hanged 20 "terrorist" Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic's biggest mass executions in recent

Floods and heavy rain in Sudan have killed 76 people and destroyed thousands of homes in recent days, the interior

A Syrian refugee has been crowned "queen" of one of Germany's top wine-making regions, the first asylum seeker to

A video taken by a passenger of an Emirates plane which was involved in an accident on landing at Dubai airport, shows chaos inside the flight. The Emirates EK521 aircraft caught fire while landing at the airport with 275 people on board.

Syrian regime forces bolstered by Russian air strikes recaptured territory overnight in the southwest suburbs of the

Five people on board a Russian military helicopter were killed yesterday when it was shot down over Syria, in the single deadliest incident for Moscow since it intervened in the war.

Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday.

Advancing Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by US-led air strikes now control 40 percent of the Islamic State stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitor said yesterday.

The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency has said he is not optimistic about the future of Syria remaining one country.

Yemen's government delegation to UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait said it will leave today, signalling the collapse of

It's a barren plot on the outskirts of Istanbul, its stony ground baking under the merciless summer sun. A single sign gives a macabre clue as to the intended use of the arid patch.