Iraq green-lights NATO’s stay in the country
The Iraqi government has given NATO the green light to stay in the country, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, weeks after Iraq demanded that...
Assad says Syria troops advancing thanks to Russia strikes
Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar al-Assad said in an...
German minister urges Riyadh and Tehran to focus on opposing ISIS
Saudi Arabia and Iran owe it to the international community to put aside their differences in the Middle East and focus on opposing Islamic...
5 Students accused of Jeddah Girl's school fire
JEDDAH – Charges of unintentional murder were framed against five girl students in connection with a massive fire that killed three teachers and injured...
Passenger bombed on Somali plane meant for Turkish Airlines
A man suspected of detonating a bomb on a Somali passenger plane had initially intended to board a Turkish Airlines flight, the company's chief...
Inside Assad's Syria
For the past month, Russian bombs over Syria have further complicated the civil war, a conflict that has been tearing the country apart for...
Tears and joy as Egyptian Christians killed in Libya laid to rest
Tears mixed with joy on Tuesday as the remains of 20 Christians were laid to rest in Egypt's Minya province more than three years...
New Bahrain policy to allow flights between Israel and UAE to cross its airspace
CAIRO (Reuters) - Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom on Thursday said...
Netanyahu moves to dampen inflammatory Al-Aqsa talk
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled Tuesday to contain inflammatory rhetoric from his government over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, at the heart of a...
US calls for the protection of its troops as Iraqi lawmakers schedule confidence vote
On Monday, Iraqi lawmakers scheduled a confidence vote for the government of prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi later this week, as the US called for...
