Iraq parliament orders full election recount
Iraq's parliament Wednesday ordered a manual recount of the May 12 legislative elections and sacked the commission which oversaw the polls that resulted in...
UAE plane crashed in Yemen due to technical fault, pilots killed
Two pilots died when a United Arab Emirates Mirage plane crashed in Yemen on Monday due to a technical fault while conducting military operations...
Syria regime advances as opposition debates attending talks
Syria's regime on Tuesday seized a strategic southern town from rebel forces, as leading opposition representatives debated whether to attend peace talks in Geneva...
At least 20,000 children trapped in Fallujah, Iraq
At least 20,000 children are trapped in jihadist bastion Fallujah under siege by Iraqi forces and face shortages and forced recruitment as fighters, the...
Hariri urges Saudi King Salman not to abandon Lebanon
Lebanese Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri on Monday urged Saudi Arabia not to abandon Lebanon after it halted aid to the army, reflecting concerns that...
Pilgrims ‘stone devil’ in last major Hajj ritual
Pilgrims began heading back to Mina and the Grand Mosque to perform further rites and rituals on the third day of their Hajj pilgrimage...
Dozens killed and wounded in bombing at Libya police school
A truck bomb attack on a police training centre in Libya's western city of Zliten has killed and wounded dozens of people, local media...
Two weeks night-time curfew in Egypt
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli announced that Egypt is to impose a night-time curfew for two weeks from Wednesday to contain the spread of the...
Secretary Kerry calls for Syrian and Arab ground troops to fight against ISIS
US Secretary of State John Kerry called Thursday for Syrian and Arab ground troops to take on Islamic State fighters to enable a complete...
HRW: Smuggled Syria photos 'damning evidence' of crimes against humanity
Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centres in Syria present "damning evidence" of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch...
