Turkish police detained the editor and senior staff of a leading opposition newspaper on Monday over its alleged support for a failed coup in July, in a move described by a top EU politician as the crossing of a red line against freedom of expression.

A top Emirati court on Monday sentenced seven people to up to life in prison after convicting them of forming a cell linked to Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, state media said.

Supporters of Michel Aoun gathered in the Lebanese capital Monday ahead of a parliament session expected to elect him president and end a political stalemate of more than two years.

Iraqi federal policemen stood over the corpse of an Islamic State suicide bomber covered by a curtain. The chain attached to his ankle was tied to a car that had dragged him through streets ...

Saudi-led coalition air strikes on rebel-held security buildings in western Yemen have killed at least 60 people, many of them inmates buried under the rubble of a detention centre.

At least 22 people were killed and 72 injured in flooding in parts of Egypt caused by torrential rains, authorities said yesterday, updating an earlier toll of 18 dead.

Iraqi forces said yesterday that they recaptured a series of villages surrounding Mosul as the operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group neared its third week.

Syria’s regime and rebels were locked in fierce fighting yesterday on Aleppo’s western edges, where 41 civilians have been killed in an opposition offensive to break a devastating government siege.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who had rammed three border policemen with his car in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police said.

Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other using poison gas.

Saudi authorities said Sunday they had foiled a plot to bomb a football stadium during a World Cup qualifying match and dismantled two "terrorist" cells linked to the Islamic State group.

A car bomb parked in a shopping street of a Shia district of Baghdad killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 others on Sunday, police and medical staff said.