(Reuters) - Warplanes from Libya's internationally recognized government on Monday attacked the last functioning airport in Tripoli, the capital controlled by a rival administration, officials said. Extending a series of tit-for-tat strikes, the attack coincided with the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new amateur video circulated online shows the mutilation of unarmed man before being slaughtered, few days since Shiite militia fighters executed a young boy in the Sunni Iraqi city of Tikrit. The graphic mobile phone video is spreading...

A Syrian businessman described as the "middleman" for oil deals between Isil and Bashar al-Assad's regime will be targeted for European Union sanctions on Saturday. The listing of George Haswani, the owner of HESCO engineering company, sheds more light on financial links between...

(Reuters) - The  United Nations  said on Saturday talks with Libya's warring factions had made progress and delegates would return to Morocco next week for more negotiations after consultations at home on forming a unity government. Western leaders are backing the...

  Egypt  executed an Islamist on Saturday for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried out against a supporter of the banned Muslim Brotherhood under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The interior ministry said in a statement on...

(Reuters) - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the United States this week to take a tough line against Iran , he argued that world powers could always push for a better nuclear deal because the Islamic Republic was vulnerable to low oil prices. But the claim...

(Reuters) - Militant gunmen attacked Libya's al-Ghani oilfield on Friday, killing 11 guards, beheading some of them, before local forces fought back to retake control, an oil security official said. The al-Ghani attack illustrated Libya's growing instability where two rival...

Several Israelis were injured on Friday after a Palestinian man drove a vehicle into a crowd of Israelis in East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities have said. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the vehicular attack took place near an Israeli police headquarters located on...

(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have looted and bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Iraqi government said, in their latest assault on some of the world's greatest archaeological and cultural treasures. A tribal source from the nearby city of Mosul told Reuters...

(Bloomberg) - Turkey’s lira slid to a record for a third consecutive day after Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said the central bank didn’t go far enough with rate cuts, arguing there’s no need to worry about the currency. The foreign-exchange...

(Reuters)- Oil rose in volatile trade on Thursday but analysts said the gains may not hold in the face of a strong dollar and the U.S. commitment to forge a nuclear deal with Iran . Concerns about deteriorating oil supplies from Libya and Iraq boosted crude prices even before...

Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's presidency said Thursday that Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, who spearheaded a brutal crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, had been replaced along with seven other ministers. The removal of Ibrahim, who was appointed by Morsi, follows...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have set fire to oil wells in the Ajil field east of the city of Tikrit to try to hinder aerial attacks aimed at driving them from the oilfield, a witness and military source said. Black smoke could be seen rising from oil field since...

The U.S. ambassador to South Korea was seriously injured Thursday morning in an attack by an armed assailant, according to local media. National news agency Yonhap cited official sources as saying Mark Lippert was headed to a lecture in the center of the capital Seoul when...

Simply demanding Iran's capitulation is no way to get a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday as he wrapped up three days of talks with a veiled dig at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Kerry said he and Iran ian...

Iraqi security forces, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition and tribal fighters, killed 38 Daesh militants Wednesday in Anbar province in western Iraq, security sources said. In the first operation, the army targeted Daesh (the Arabic acronym for...

Iran was to hold a memorial service on Tuesday for seven Afghans killed fighting alongside the forces of its close ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian media reported. Among the dead was the commander of Afghan volunteer unit the...

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(Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 12 air strikes on Islamic State targets in  Iraq  and Syria in a 24-hour period, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Wednesday. Three strikes near Kobani, Syria, hit a tactical unit and...

The U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers began a third day of talks over Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that the deal being negotiated was a serious mistake. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and...