LONDON: A police officer was arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into the discovery of ammunition in personal lockers in a police...
LONDON: A police officer was arrested yesterday as part of an investigation into the discovery of ammunition in personal lockers in a police...
BELGRADE: Kosovo urged old master Serbia yesterday to recognise it as independent during the first visit to Belgrade by a foreign minister of...
KANO, Nigeria: A deadly bombing in northern Nigeria and new details about kidnappings at the weekend blamed on Boko Haram cast further doubt...
GENEVA/LONDON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday it was “reasonably confident” that the Ebola virus plaguing three West African countries had not...
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), gestures during an interview with Reuters at his family residence in Naudero, some...
QUETTA: At least 11 people were killed and 30 injured in a series of attacks in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta yesterday,...
KARACHI: A Pakistani court yesterday ordered the media regulatory authority to restore transmission of a news channel supportive of anti-government protests organised by...
KABUL: US President Barack Obama, keen to reset relations with Afghanistan that soured under longtime President Hamid Karzai, has invited the leaders of...
Kabul: A security operation led by Afghan security forces have claimed the lives of 23 people, mostly armed insurgents, in the northern Kunduz...
Israeli policemen run during clashes with Palestinian protesters in a suburb of East Jerusalem yesterday. JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday pledged a tough response to...
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Al Bashir yesterday urged opponents to join him in “national dialogue” talks, days after it was announced he...
An explosion after an apparent airstrike carried out by the international anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition as part of operation Inherent Resolve on the...
Yemeni motorcyclists protest against the governments decision to begin enforcing a long-standing motorbike ban, in Sana’a, yesterday.
ADEN: Southern Yemeni separatists pledged yesterday to escalate protests demanding secession, as northern Shiite rebels vie to expand their control over more of...
RIYADH: Four women in Saudi Arabia have been jailed for preparing their sons to wage war and for supporting Al Qaeda, official media...
CENGELLI, Turkey: If they let their eyes wander from the blackboard, a handful of children from Kobane can watch their town being bombarded...
CAIRO: Egypt’s minister of social solidarity has urged civil society groups not to prejudge a new draft law for non-government organisations (NGOs), which...
TRIPOLI: Lebanese troops arrested a recruiter for the Islamic State group wanted for the beheading of a captured soldier, in a raid yesterday...