BEIRUT: A Lebanese flag flutters in the protest-hit Iraqi capital. More than 900 kilometers (500 miles) away, a revolutionary Iraqi chant rings out from a bustling protest square in Beirut.“Don’t trust the rumors, they’re

BAGHDAD: The United Nations top envoy to Iraq, seeking support for a roadmap to resolve massive anti-government protests, said Monday that the country’s most powerful Shiite religious leader backs serious reforms but is concerned

Erbil, Iraq - When in early October Joseph Salio received a phone call from a group of Arab students based in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI) asking him to help organise a demonstration

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man during confrontations with stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Monday. The 22-year-old man was shot in the chest in al-Arroub refugee camp, near Hebron city,

WASHINGTON: US troop levels in northern Syria will probably stabilize around 500, a top American military leader said Sunday, weeks after President Donald Trump had announced a complete withdrawal.“There will be less than 1,000,

ANKARA: A car bomb in northern Syria killed at least eight civilians and wounded 20 others Sunday in a town near the border with Turkey, Turkey's Defense Ministry said.The explosion struck a town south

Tunisia's Ennahda party will nominate its leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, as speaker of the new parliament, a party member said. "The party has decided to nominate Rached Ghannouchi as parliament speaker," Abdulkarim Harouni, head of the

Iran began constructing a second nuclear reactor at its Bushehr power plant - a facility being fuelled by uranium enriched further than the limits outlined in the faltering 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. While

BEIRUT: The smells of grilled cheese and cooked corn waft over the protesters in the Lebanese capital — with daily crowds filling the capital’s main squares, the movement has been a boon for street

BEIRUT: The smells of grilled cheese and cooked corn waft over the protesters in the Lebanese capital — with daily crowds filling the capital’s main squares, the movement has been a boon for street