Middle East Headlines

BEIRUT Lebanon's Hezbollah used drones to strike Islamic State in Syria close to the border with Lebanon, a military media unit it runs said on Monday, their first public declaration that they had used such a weapon.Hezbollah deployed the drones to h...

Raed Salah's arrest is part of a wider political trend in Israel targeting Arab political life, Palestinians say....

Tehran (ISNA) Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said during a regular press briefing on Monday that Iran has taken the necessary steps for improving ties with Saudi Arabia and it is now Riyadh turn to take more steps....

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London landmark will not sound iconic chime for four years as it undergoes maintenance, prompting passionate response....

President of umbrella group for French Jewish organizations responds to recent ramming, stabbing attacks in Europe....

Tensions soared again in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh Monday, as heavy gunfire exchanges between Fatah Movement and extremists echoed in the main conflict zone of al-Fawqani Street...

Nepal will hold a general election on Nov. 26, the government said on Monday, hoping to conclude a turbulent journey to democracy a decade after a civil war and the abolition of its 239-year-old monarchy....

Authorities say Pau Perez, a 34-year-old man found stabbed dead in a Ford Focus, was killed by jihadist still at large...

Tehran, Aug 21, IRNA Iran and Indonesia have made great achievements in boosting bilateral ties in tourism, cultural, political and economic fields, Indonesian envoy to Iran said....

Israel's most historically successful club announces Steve McClaren will join as a coaching consultant...

Kim Wall boarded the craft as part of a story she was writing. She never returned, and the submarine owner told police he buried her at sea....

Another wounded victim dies, police say imam who recruited terrorists killed in explosion while trying to make bombs....

The initiative began with a declared effort to boost the Jewish presence in Israel's northern region three years ago...

Tehran, Aug 21, IRNA Upholding and protecting Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and the achievements made in the aftermath of the agreement constitute main priorities of the new government, Foreign Ministry spokesman sai...

China says that the ongoing joint military drills by the US and South Korea are not beneficial for the Korean peninsula where the situation is sensitive and fragile....

U.S. and South Korean troops kicked off their annual drills Monday that come after tensions rose over North Korea's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month...

A border dispute high in the Himalayas puts the decades long "cold peace" between India and China under severe strain....

An analyst says the US is clearly escalating the situation on the Korean Peninsula by sending additional troops to South Korea to conduct joint military exercises....

To Israel's delight, Cairo's involvement is already showing results...

University of Texas President Greg Fenves has ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism...

New web tool helps scientists communicate more clearly with those outside their field of expertise...

Russia's air force has destroyed a large column of Daesh (ISIS) fighters on their way to the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, killing over 200 militants, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defence Ministry as saying on Monday...

The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says any change in the political geography of the region will create tensions across the Middle East....

Tehran (ISNA) - The Iranian Judiciary has issued a ruling demanding the US government pay around $245 million compensation to a number of victims of chemical attacks carried out by Saddam Husseins troops during the 1980 to 1988 imposed war on Iran....

EL-ARISH, Egypt Egyptian security officials say a soldier and a policeman have been killed in separate attacks by suspected Islamic militants in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula.The officials say that along with the killed soldier, five others ...

Defense Ministry coordinator in West Bank points out Latin American country 'is more than 10,000 kilometers from Ramallah' while the beleaguered Gaza Strip is just next door...

LONDON Britain's Big Ben has bonged the hour for the last time ahead of almost four years of repair work.The giant bell atop Parliament's clock tower rang out 12 times at noon, as parliamentary staff, lawmakers and passersby paused to listen.The ...

BARCELONA A regional official in Spain says that the death toll in the attacks last week in Barcelona and a coastal town south of the city has risen to 15.Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn gave the updated figure in a news conference. He said that t...

An Egyptian soldier and a policeman are killed by Tafiri militants in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula...

Qatar on Monday denied it had banned Saudi Arabian flights from landing in the emirate to transport Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, after an accusation by authorities in Riyadh...

Tehran, Aug 21, IRNA Chinese media on Monday refered to an up-coming glass exhibition in Tehran saying that Iran is a major producer of glass in the world....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that a joint operation with Iran against Kurdish militants was always on the agenda, a week after Tehran's top armed forces commander visited Ankara for rare talks....

A so-called monitoring group says at least 125 civilians have been killed in US-led airstrikes against Syrias northern city of Raqqah....

TEHRAN FNA - Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey, Russia and Iran are cooperating to establish lasting truce in Syria....

TEHRAN FNA - Israeli forces demolished on Monday a kindergarten in Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community to the east of Jerusalem, and seized all its contents, according to local sources....

TEHRAN FNA - At least fifteen Taliban insurgents were killed or wounded during the clashes in the central Maidan Wardak province of Afghanistan....