Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, are received by Princess Haya bint al-Hussein (right), wife of the ruler of Dubai, at the Dubai Humanitarian International City, during their three-day tour of the UAE yesterday.

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman of Saudi Arabia shakes hands with US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford, in Riyadh yesterday.

The Syrian army said it had taken a strategic district of Aleppo yesterday in what would mark the most important advance in the divided city by Damascus and its allies in weeks, but rebels said the battle was not over.

At least seven children and two pregnant women were killed in an air strike on Syria’s rebel stronghold province of Idlib yesterday, a monitor said.

More than 20 senior European diplomats visited Gaza yesterday, calling for the Israeli blockade on the impoverished Palestinian enclave to be lifted.

Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from the Islamic State group, an official said yesterday, as US-backed militia forces advanced on the militants’ Syrian stronghold Raqa.

Families fleeing Mosul as Iraqi forces move in are taking their ‘official’ documents with them but also wondering who will recognise the stamp of the Islamic State group.

Islamic State fighters have abducted 295 former Iraqi Security Forces members near Mosul and forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the town of Hammam al Alil towards Mosul airport, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday.

Hyperloop One signed an agreement with Dubai on Tuesday to "evaluate" the building of the world's first near-supersonic hyperloop transport system in the Gulf emirate.

Jordanian King Abdullah II speaking during the opening of the parliament’s new session in the capital Amman yesterday.

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqa in Syria while Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives advanced yesterday against the two Islamic State group strongholds.

Almost 200 nations began work yesterday to turn promises for fighting climate change into action at a UN conference that played down threats to a 2015 global agreement if Republican Donald Trump wins the US presidency.