Middle East

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild ...

The European Union’s “reflexes” on geopolitical issues in the eastern Mediterranean are “not what we would expect”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday night. He was speaking to ...

Turkey will do whatever necessary for the reconstruction of Syria following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, including improving ties in trade, energy and defence, President Tayyip Erdogan said. “We will ...

Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has hired fund manager Abdulrahman Al-Abdulla as head of its business in Qatar, as the Wall Street bank continues its expansion in the region and tries ...

Israeli airstrikes on Syria are violations of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and “must stop,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday. Since a lightning rebel offensive ...

There is no talk of a ceasefire deal between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, contrary to a U.S. announcement, a Turkish ...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and ...

Tunisia’s coast guard has recovered the bodies of 20 migrants from Africa after the boat they were in sank off the coast, the national guard said on Wednesday, the second ...

France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria in January and that the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on clear political and ...

They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday night said the international community must “make sure that the influence Turkey is trying to assert in Syria is not going to create an ...

An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days with talks in Cairo making progress, ...

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians on Tuesday, at least 10 of them in one house in Gaza City, medics said as tanks pushed deeper towards ...

The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the ...

The U.N.’s Syria envoy urged an inclusive Syrian transition based on a nine-year-old Security Council resolution during a meeting with the commander of Syria’s new administration, Ahmed ...

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad said on Monday he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim base in Syria on the evening of December 8 as it came under drone attacks, after ...

Relatives of Palestinians killed by Israel in Khan Younis gathered around their white-shrouded bodies on Monday before carrying them to their graves. Palestinian health officials said on Sunday at least 20 ...

Israel agreed to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria remained despite the moderate tone of rebel leaders who ousted President Bashar al-Assad a ...

Israel will close its Dublin embassy due to the “extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government”, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday, citing its recognition of a Palestinian state ...

The Republic of Cyprus must have a leading role regarding Syria and its future, particularly due to its geographic proximity to the country, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Asked ...

Students returned to classrooms in Syria on Sunday after the country’s new rulers ordered schools reopened in a potent sign of some normalcy a week after rebels swept into ...

Russia appears to be packing up military equipment at a military air base in Syria, according to satellite images released by Maxar following rebels’ overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad last ...

Tens of thousands of Syrians, mostly Shi’ite Muslims, have fled to Lebanon since Sunni Muslim Islamists toppled Bashar al-Assad, fearing persecution despite assurances from the new rulers in Damascus ...

The United States sees the fall of Bashar al-Assad as an extraordinary chance to rid Syria “once and for all” of chemical weapons used by his regime to kill or ...