Hundreds of Syrian fighters have begun to leave the besieged Damascus suburb of Barzeh as part of an evacuation deal reached with the government, according to...
Israel’s prison service has released a video purportedly showing the leader of a three-week-old hunger strike by Palestinian inmates eating in his cell. The service said...
Ismail Haniya has been elected as the new leader of Hamas’ political bureau, according to the Palestinian movement’s news agency. The announcement on Satuday came just...
The Iraqi military has admitted bombing a disused school in western Mosul, but denied targeting civilians – saying the building was being used by ISIL as...
A deal to set up safe zones in Syria will come into force at midnight local time, Russia’s defence ministry says. The accord on four zones...
Iraqi security forces say they have opened a new front in the operation against so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in north-western Mosul. Troops from the army’s...
During a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump vowed to find Middle East peace — a permanent...
Syrian rebels have suspended their participation in the latest round of talks in Kazakhstan in protest against ongoing air raids in the war-torn country. Syrian rebel...
US President Donald Trump is to hold talks with the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, at the White House. The meeting is part of an attempt to...
More than 50 miners are trapped after an explosion in a coal mine in northern Iran, state media reports say. Two people are reported to have...
More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria’s north-eastern border with Iraq. They targeted a...