An Iranian military fighter jet crashed on Wednesday near a dormant volcano in the northwest of the country, official media reported. State news agency IRNA said the jet went down at 9:00 am (0530 GMT) near Mount Sabalan, in the Lesser Caucasus range, and was a MiG-29 on a test flight after...

Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched Wednesday in southern Iraq to mourn a dead activist after a night during which the headquarters of two pro-Iran militias were set on fire, an AFP correspondent reported. The demonstrators oppose the political class that has run the oil-rich yet...

Since the eruption of the bloody civil war in Syria in 2011, the Assad regime and Russia attacks killed nearly 1,000 humanitarian workers, according to a Syrian human rights watchdog on Wednesday. A total of 979 humanitarian workers, 882 of which were killed by the Assad regime and 97 by...

Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between apartments as soaring rents in the crowded city exhausted her...