A mountainous Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Al Jab’a differs in many ways from surrounding Israeli settlements but it shares one worry with its neighbours - a shortage of water.

Iraqi forces fought their way into militant-held Mosul yesterday, the military said, as a top commander declared the “true liberation” of the city from the Islamic State group had begun.

Iraq announced on Tuesday that its forces had entered jihadist-held Mosul for the first time since the Islamic State group overran the city more than two years ago.

The United Arab Emirates has no plans to impose new taxes on individuals and the government is not studying the introduction of more fees for services, Younis al-Khouri, under-secretary at the finance ministry, told ...

Iraqi forces advanced to within a few hundred metres of Mosul yesterday, moving within striking distance of a city they lost to the Islamic State group two years before.

Lebanese lawmakers ended a two-year political vacuum yesterday by electing as president ex-army chief Michel Aoun, who promised to protect the country from spillover from the war in Syria.

Egypt marked with a church service yesterday a year since militants bombed a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a Red Sea resort, an attack that crippled the Arab country’s economy.

Artists performing on stage during the opening ceremony of the Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad grand cultural centre in Kuwait City.

The UN envoy for Yemen said yesterday he will immediately return to the region to try to clinch a peace deal in the coming weeks, even though both sides have rejected his proposals.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire at Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday, wounding three of them before being shot dead, officials said.

Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where Islamic State snipers three days earlier had shot dead a couple seeking freedom from their rule.

Bahrain on Monday postponed until Dec. 15 the trial of prominent democracy activist Nabeel Rajab to permit more investigation of a Twitter account he is accused of using to publish criticism of the government, the government and his human rights group said.