Middle Eastern News

As Syrian civil war stretches on, U.S. sends more troops March 18, 2017 at 6:10 PM EDT On Saturday, opposition fighters began to evacuate the last rebel-held neighborhood of Homs, Syria, where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began. As the Syrian civil war enters […]

Syrian security forces have engaged in fierce clashes with rebels on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. Artillery shells and rockets landed in the heart of the capital as part of a surprise rebel attack launched in the Jobar district. The assault began early on Sunday […]

A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, March 19, 2017. Share Iraqi helicopters on Sunday fired rockets near a key mosque in the contested city […]

Pope Francis will visit Cairo on April 28-29 at the invitation of the Egyptian president and the grand imam of the capital’s famed Al-Azhar mosque, the Vatican said Saturday. The pontiff had hosted the grand imam, Ahmed al-Tayeb, at the Vatican last May, in a […]

FILE – Turkey’s Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia’s Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, March 7, 2017. An […]

WASHINGTON —  The Egyptian government is struggling to counter an increasingly violent insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula targeting Egyptian police, security forces and Christians. Several militant groups, including Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, are controlling large swaths of […]

FILE – An Israeli soldier rests after completing a 45 kilomter march in the Jordan Valley, Jan. 2, 2014. The Jordan Valley is part of the West Bank and borders Jordan. Share Israel’s military said it shot down one of several anti-aircraft missiles Friday as […]

  | Associated Press | Published on March 17, 2017 at 10:23 | Last update on March 17, 2017 at 15:06 JERUSALEM: Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes early Friday after a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria — a rare military exchange between the two […]

Iraqi civilians line up to receive food supplies in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces in western Mosul, March 14, 2017. Share See comments UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations said Thursday it is preparing for a “mass exodus” from the western part of […]