Middle East
Islamic State group kills 50 Iraqis
Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi men, women and children from the same ...U.S. asks U.N. to blacklist ex-Yemen president, rebel leaders
The United States has asked for targeted U.N. sanctions to be imposed on Yemen\'s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and ...Israeli police kill Palestinian suspected of shooting far-right activist
Israeli police on Thursday shot dead a 32-year-old Palestinian suspected of having tried hours earlier to kill a far-right Jewish ...Kurdish convoy heads to Syria to take on Islamic State
A convoy of peshmerga fighters from northern Iraq headed across southeastern Turkey on Wednesday towards the Syrian town of Kobani ...Iraqi security forces and Kurds gain ground against Islamic State
Iraqi government forces and Shi\'ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturday ...Iran hangs woman in defiance of international campaign
Iran Saturday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her, ...Lebanon army fights gunmen in Tripoli, six soldiers killed
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed as the army clashed with Islamist gunmen in northern Lebanon for a second day on Saturday, using ...Egypt declares emergency in northern Sinai
A coordinated assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30 Egyptian troops on Friday, making it the deadliest single ...US-led strikes kill more than 500 militants in Syria
US-led air strikes in Syria were reported Thursday to have killed more than 500 jihadists in a month, as Kurdish ...Iraqi Kurds approve sending fighters to aid Syrian town
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobani to relieve fellow ...




