IRBIL: Lawmakers in Iraq’s largely autonomous Kurdish region voted yesterday to authorise sending Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga to help defend the embattled...
IRBIL: Lawmakers in Iraq’s largely autonomous Kurdish region voted yesterday to authorise sending Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga to help defend the embattled...
An Iranian woman, hiding her face, raises up a placard during a protest in front of the judiciary building in Isfahan, 450km south...
SANA’A: Sunni Al Qaeda militants and Shia rebels have fought a bloody battle in central Yemen, tribal sources said yesterday, amid fears of...
CAIRO: A bomb exploded outside the gates of Cairo University yesterday, an Egyptian police official said, wounding at least nine people including a...
DUBAI: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said yesterday that she would protest outside the Iranian Bar Association offices in Tehran until it reversed...
GAZA CITY: Israel’s navy arrested seven Palestinian fishermen off northern Gaza yesterday, officials on both sides said, with the army claiming their boats...
BEIRUT: Weddings in Iran have long been an over-the-top affair with families spending thousands of dollars to celebrate a union. But now some...
RIYADH: A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced two more people to death in connection with protests by minority Shias that began three...
WASHINGTON: Four former employees of the Blackwater security firm were found guilty yesterday in connection with the 2007 shootings of more than 30...
JERUSALEM: Israel yesterday reassured Jordan that it would not allow Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al Aqsa mosque compound, after reports of a...
JERUSALEM: Attackers on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula opened fire on Israeli soldiers across the border yesterday, wounding two, the Israeli military said. The attackers...
A policeman checking a vehicle near a temporary barricade in Srinagar yesterday. Security has been beefed up in Kashmir ahead of the visit...
New Delhi: The Congress yesterday attacked Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over his remarks that disclosure of names of those holding illicit foreign accounts...
Hyderabad: TRS and TDP workers clashed in Nalgonda district yesterday as the row over sharing of water and electricity between Telangana and Andhra...
Kolkata: The CBI yesterday filed its first chargesheet in the Saradha scam, naming scam kingpin Sudipta Sen, his close aide Debjani Mukherjee and...
New Delhi: The first unit of the Russian built Kudankulam nuclear plant, which stopped operations late last month after a minor malfunction in...
United Nations: Reiterating its traditional policy of not using nuclear weapons first and not targeting non-nuclear weapons nations, India has offered to enter...
New Delhi: The CPM yesterday called for radical electoral reforms, saying the BJP was winning legislative majorities with just a third or less...
