( The New Arab )- Hamas ordered the hanging of three men accused of collaborating with Israel on Thursday, days after they promised amnesty to "collaborators" if they were to turn themselves in. The executions were carried out after Hamas called for "revenge" following the killing of one of...

( Daily Star )- Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he was "100 percent sure" Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered a suspected chemical attack this week that provoked international outrage. Lieberman said the alleged attack in the neighbouring country was carried out...

( Daily Star )- Turkey is planning in the next weeks to launch a new cross border military incursion to oust the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, a report said Thursday. The report in the pro-government Yeni Safak daily was not immediately...

( The New Arab )- Yemeni forces backing the internationally-recognised government are preparing for an assault on a key port town held by Houthi rebels. Fighters aligned to President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the government's Arab allies are building up around Hodeidah, despite UN urged for...

( Al-Araby Al-Jadeed )- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck northeastern Iran near the holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, killing at least two people as residents fled onto the streets and aftershocks shook the region. The epicentre of the quake appeared to be the Sefid Sang...

At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, security and medical sources said on Wednesday. The militants wore police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city,...

A Kuwaiti military plane entered Iraqi airspace, Baghdad said on Tuesday, allegedly causing fear among residents in the area. The military jet flew above Safwan in the southern governorate of Basra, local reports said. Kuwait is among the nations currently hosting military drills in the...

The Palestinian women's football team saw a crushing defeat in their first match in Asian Cup qualifiers -- a 6-0 loss to Thailand -- but for captain Claudie Salameh, the score means little. "Playing football for girls in Palestine is an enormous challenge," she said after the match. "We...

More than 300,000 people have fled Mosul since the start of the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from the northern Iraqi city in October, the United Nations said Tuesday. The United Nations' International Organisation for Migration estimates the number of people currently displaced to...

 Turkish security forces have detained 18 people attempting to illegally cross to Turkey from its Syrian border, including a Chechen man suspected of planning an attack, the military said Tuesday. The security forces found 1.5 kg (3.3 pounds) of explosives and two grenades in the...

The Trump administration's failure to keep senior adviser Jared Kushner's trip to Iraq secret isn't standard practice for top U.S. officials visiting warzones. Such trips are usually kept quiet, with the cooperation of journalists, until the officials arrive in order to ensure maximum security....

Turkey is planning new offensives inside Syria against groups deemed terrorist organisations by Ankara, even after the completion of its six-month-long operation in the country’s north, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Turkey announced last week that it had completed the Euphrates...

Three police personnel were killed Monday in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s western city of Fallujah, according to a local military officer.  A bomber blew up his car at a checkpoint in the city’s western entrance, Army Colonel Walid al-Dulaimi told Anadolu Agency.  He said seven...

Bahrain's top court Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, a judicial source said. The Sunni-ruled kingdom's court of cassation reduced Salman's sentence from nine to four years, the source said on condition of...

 An international human rights group Monday accused Israel of barring foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document abuses, saying the restrictions call into question Israel's stated commitment to investigating possible rights violations. In a 47-page report, Human Rights...

A leader in ISIS' Egyptian affiliate was killed in an air raid last month, the Egyptian military said Sunday. "Following the results of the air raid on March 18... and upon the security apparatus's investigation, it was revealed that Salem Salmy al-Hamadeen, Aka Abu Anas al-Ansari, was...

Iraq has assured OPEC it will fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said Sunday. Compliance with the deal agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers at the end of last year to cut supply is "encouraging",...

The hospital in Qayara sometimes receives so many dead bodies that they do not fit in the refrigerator unit and have to be left in the corridors. Inside the mortuary, the dead are simply put on the floor because there are no containers, sometimes piled one on top of the other in a gruesome...

Four civilians were killed in February by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military said on Saturday as it updated a tally of accidental deaths in the fight against the Islamic State militants. At least 229 civilians have been unintentionally killed by air strikes since...

President Tayyip Erdogan described himself as a "guardian of peace" on Saturday as he called on Kurds in conflict-torn southeast Turkey to vote "yes" in a referendum in two weeks time on reforms that would grant him sweeping new powers. Since the collapse of a two-year-old cease-fire in July...