World / Middle East

Baby killed in clashes between Turkish forces, Kurdish rebels: Medics 27 Dec 2015 - 01:30 pm

File photo of Turkish soldiers at a checkpoint in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey Diyarbakir, Turkey: A three-month baby and her grandfather were killed in...

Russia says air force has not hit civilian targets in Syria 27 Dec 2015 - 12:55 pm

A site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in Karf Naseh town, Aleppo countryside, Syria. ...

Saudi air defense intercepts missile launched from Yemeni territories 27 Dec 2015 - 10:13 am

Riyadh: The Command of Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced on Sunday that the Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted last night a...

Israeli forces arrest 10 palestinians in West Bank 27 Dec 2015 - 09:46 am

The Israeli occupation forces arrested overnight Saturday 10 Palestinians dubbed as "wanted" in the West Bank. The Israeli (Jerusalem Post) daily claimed that...

Turkey arrests 10 suspected ISIS members 27 Dec 2015 - 09:33 am

Ankara: Turkish security forces have arrested 10 persons, including four foreigners, in Elbeyli town of Kilis, Southern Turkey, while sneaking into Turkey from...

Belgian college’s concerns over Paris attacker ignored: newspapers 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Bilal Hadfi, 20, named as one of the attackers who detonated a suicide bomb outside the Stade de France in Paris on Nov....

15,000 protest Turkey's military crackdown on Kurdish rebels 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Kurds in Düsseldorf, Germany, in a protest against Islamic State. File photo Berlin: Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest...

Israeli forces shot dead Palestinian in Nablus 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

File photo Ramallah: Israeli soldiers opened fire on and killed a Palestinian at a military checkpoint near Nablus after he rammed his vehicle...

IS leader urges uprising in Saudi, attacks in Israel: recording 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Beirut: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the secretive leader of the Islamic State group, called for an uprising in Saudi Arabia and pledged to attack...

UN sets Syria peace talks target date, after death of rebel chief 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Zahran Alloush Damascus: The United Nations hopes to convene peace talks between Syria's government and opposition on January 25, it said Saturday, a...

Egypt jails two policemen for life for torture killing 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Rights groups regularly accuse the regular police and members of the secret police of abusing and torturing detainees. Representative image, Reuters. Cairo: An...

Turkish President meets Iraqi Kurdistan's Premier 27 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ankara: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday met with the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Province Nechirvan Barzani,...

Record 12,000 candidates for Iran elections 26 Dec 2015 - 06:52 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani registers for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at the...

UN says it hopes to launch Syria peace talks on January 25 26 Dec 2015 - 06:50 pm

United Nations, United States: The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, hopes to convene talks between the government of President Bashar...

Hamas condemns apparent Egyptian killing of mentally ill Palestinian 26 Dec 2015 - 06:33 pm

GAZA: The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea...

Kurds, Arabs seize key Syria dam from IS: group 26 Dec 2015 - 06:14 pm

Qamishli, Syria: An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels seized a key dam on the Euphrates River from Islamic State group jihadists in...

Turkish civilians stuck in urban war zone in southeast 26 Dec 2015 - 06:13 pm

A man wheels a sick person in a wheelbarrow through the barricades set up by the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or...

Yemen fighting persists outside rebel-held capital 26 Dec 2015 - 05:40 pm

Aden: Yemeni loyalists killed at least 20 Iran-backed rebels Saturday in a pushback against insurgents seeking to retake positions to the northeast of...