Exclusive dispatch: Assad blamed for massacre of the innocents
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
The war in Syria escalates with the brutal killing of 32 children
27 May 2012 12:00 AM
The war in Syria escalates with the brutal killing of 32 children
26 May 2012 08:09 AM
President Bashar Assad's forces killed at least 90 civilians, including 13 children, in central Syria, activists said.
26 May 2012 12:00 AM
The rubbish has been collected but snipers kill people after dark. Patrick Cockburn reports from a Damascus suburb
26 May 2012 12:00 AM
Israel is facing rare criticism from the US State Department and some American Jewish organisations over the backlash against African asylum-seekers which peaked when a demonstration by residents in Tel Aviv turned violent this week.
25 May 2012 04:09 PM
A suicide bomber drove into a school in northern Yemen's al-Jawf province where members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group had gathered for Friday prayers and killed 12 people, the defence ministry said.
25 May 2012 12:52 PM
The UN nuclear agency has found traces of uranium at Iran's underground atomic site enriched to higher than previous levels and closer to what is needed for nuclear weapons, diplomats say.
25 May 2012 12:00 AM
25 May 2012 12:00 AM
Government forces executed entire families in their homes as part of the crackdown on the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, UN investigators have found.
24 May 2012 05:50 PM
Yemen says its troops have killed 35 al-Qa'ida militants in an attack on a hideout in the country's south, part of a wider offensive.
24 May 2012 04:41 PM
Iran and an American-led naval coalition each said today that they responded to a distress call by a US-flagged cargo ship that came under fire from gunmen in the Gulf of Oman a day earlier.
24 May 2012 09:42 AM
Envoys from Iran and six world powers have resumed talks over Tehran's nuclear programme after issuing rival proposals during the opening day of negotiations in Baghdad.
24 May 2012 12:00 AM
Iran has withdrawn its ambassador from Azerbaijan in a row about the Eurovision Song Contest.
24 May 2012 12:00 AM
UK ministers warned that Israeli strike on Iran nuclear facilities could spark Middle East war
23 May 2012 03:19 PM
Turkey's state-run news agency says a prosecutor has asked a court to approve murder charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship that tried to break an Israeli blockade to reach Gaza in 2010.
23 May 2012 09:00 AM
Israel wants Iran to halt the enrichment of uranium, which Tehran says is for peaceful purposes