KIRKUK, IRAQ- The Islamic State jihadist group seized dozens of men from two villages in northern Iraq on Friday while searching for people who burned its flag, officials and residents said. An...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- More than 76,000 people were killed in Syria's brutal conflict in 2014, making it the bloodiest year since the country's war erupted in March 2011, a monitoring group said Thursday....

WASHINGTON, US- Top US diplomat John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov spoke Thursday to discuss the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, officials said. "Secretary Kerry and Foreign...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syria will award 50 percent of vacant government posts to relatives of soldiers and government employees killed or paralysed in the country's conflict, according to a law issued on...

TUNIS, TUNISIA, Ines Bel Aiba- Anti-Islamist Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, was sworn in Wednesday as Tunisia's first freely elected president vowing to work for national reconciliation, four years after an...

UNITED NATIONS, US, Carole Landry- The UN Security Council failed Tuesday to adopt a resolution on Palestinian statehood that was strongly opposed by the United States. China, France and Russia were...

UNITED NATIONS, US, Carole Landry- Palestinian envoys presented Monday a more toughly-worded UN draft resolution on statehood that could come up for a vote at the Security Council this week, despite...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Sunday in a new attempt to push out Islamic State group jihadists, officials said. In...

RABAT, MOROCCO- A Moroccan court specialising in cases related to "terrorism" has sentenced 10 people to jail terms, including some accused of recruiting fighters for Syria and Iraq, official media...