Middle-East

Three weeks after being rushed to hospital in Paris, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has disappeared from sight, leaving behind a country preparing for a successor who for the first time wi

AMMAN: The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a government official said, as activists reported that regime airstrikes and

JERUSALEM: The land where a West Bank settlement once stood before its evacuation during Israel’s 2005 disengagement, is finally to be returned to its Palestinian

TUNIS: Tunisian group Ansar Al-Sharia's supporters clashed with police in a Tunis suburb yesterday, after the government banned it from holding its annual congress i

CAIRO: Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel day, secu

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called yesterday for joint Sunni-Shiite prayers after a spate of attacks on places of worship, saying the attackers wanted to igni