One of the people on board the EgyptAir flight almost did not make the trip after losing his passport last week, his friends tell media in France.

Three bombings have killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 100 in Baghdad today, police and medical sources said, extending the deadliest spate of attacks in the Iraqi capital so far this year.

World powers said yesterday they supported the lifting of an arms embargo on Libya and were ready to supply weapons to the

US military officials are monitoring reports that Islamic State have declared a state of emergency in Raqqa.

The politically charged trial began yesterday of an Israeli soldier accused of shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant as he

Amid fierce fighting after the Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last year, US special forces advisers

For 1,000 years, Thonis-Heracleion was completely submerged. Fish made their homes among the rubble of mighty temples; hieroglyphs gathered algae. Gods and kings sat in stasis, powerless, their statues slowly withdrawing from the world, one inch of sand at a time.

Leading Russian musicians on Thursday staged a classical concert in the ancient theatre of Syria's ravaged Palmyra in a show by the

At least 28 people, including women and children, were killed when air strikes hit a camp for internally displaced people in Syria's Idlib province near the Turkish border yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Israel launched air raids on the Gaza Strip yesterday after a day of tensions along the border of the Palestinian territory whose

Egyptian police stormed the headquarters of the journalists' association in central Cairo Sunday and arrested two journalists for

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 14 people, including Shia Muslim worshippers

Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which took off from southern Turkey struck Islamic State targets in Syria on Sunday,

Fresh air strikes pummelled the Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday as US Secretary of State John Kerry made a desperate bid to salvage a two-month ceasefire in the war-torn country.

Thousands of angry protesters broke into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone yesterday and stormed the Iraqi parliament building after lawmakers again failed to approve new ministers. Jubilant supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr invaded the main session hall, shouting slogans glorifying their leader and claiming that they had rooted out corruption.

An Italian cargo ship rescued 26 migrants from a flimsy boat that was sinking off the coast of Libya but there are fears more may

Government forces have launched operations against the Taliban in 18 provinces of Afghanistan as fighting has intensified since

Reformist and moderate Iranian politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won second round parliamentary elections,

Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo yesterday, as a "freeze" in

Four Bangladeshi migrant workers are killed and two others injured in a road crash at Dukhan in Qatar.