Afghan refugees are going to fight for Iran in Syria on the offer of being paid a monthly salary and being granted permanent residency   (Middle East Eye)- Iran has recruited thousands of Afghan refugees living in the Islamic Republic to go and fight a religious war in Syria to...

A British passenger jet came close to being hit by a rocket as it came in to land at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh in August, British media reported on Saturday, although the U.K. government said it concluded the incident was not a deliberate attack. The pilot of the Thomson flight from...

Giant posters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in military uniform hang at security checkpoints leading to the Sinai, but the crash of a Russian airliner in the peninsula has shattered the image of control they seek to project. Western officials have raised the possibility that...

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State insurgents were battling another rebel group, according to a report by an international watchdog seen by Reuters. A confidential Oct. 29 report by the Organisation for the Prohibition...