A Palestinian boy walks past the destroyed and deserted terminal of the Gaza Strip’s former international airport in Rafah yesterday. GAZA: Unless negotiations...
A Palestinian boy walks past the destroyed and deserted terminal of the Gaza Strip’s former international airport in Rafah yesterday. GAZA: Unless negotiations...
Yemeni supporters of the Shia Houthi group march during a demonstration against the government and against a petrol tax increase in Sana’a yesterday....
IST Peshmerga fighters guard a position on the frontline of fighting with Islamic State militants, near Mosul, yesterday. ANBUL: Former dictator Saddam Hussein’s...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said yesterday that it had destroyed the homes of two of three Palestinians suspected of involvement in the kidnapping...
MUSCAT: Oman’s 73-year-old ruler H M Sultan Qaboos bin Said is in Germany where he has undergone medical tests but is in good...
KUWAIT: Kuwait briefly detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric less than two weeks after the United States included him on a sanctions list...
PARIS: French detectives are investigating whether a group of heavily armed gunmen who attacked a convoy of vehicles carrying a Saudi prince and...
WASHINGTON: The US State Department banned a senior member of the Islamic State (IS) yesterday as the United States sharply intensified its new...
TEHRAN: Iran is committed to securing a nuclear agreement with world powers but will not sign one “at any price”, its negotiators said...
CAIRO: A policeman was killed and another seriously wounded in northern Egypt yesterday when gunmen in a parked car fired at patrolling officers,...
ANKARA: Turkey has summoned the German ambassador to demand a “formal and satisfactory explanation” following reports that the country was spied on by...
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI: Renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s air force was responsible for strikes on Islamist-leaning militia in Tripoli yesterday, one of his commanders said, after...
TEHRAN: A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the province of Ilam in western Iran yesterday, injuring at least 250 people and causing extensive...
A boy stands near posters displaying a government message against Ebola at Duwala market in Monrovia yesterday. MONROVIA/GENEVA: Liberia struggled yesterday to track...
Residents salvage their belongings from a damaged block of flats after Ukrainian army shelling in Khartsyzk, 24km from Donetsk, yesterday. DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine...
An officer advises demonstrators protesting the shooting death of Michael Brown that they can’t stop walking as they make their voices heard yesterday...
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond (left) speaks with Historic Scotland employee Douglas Wilson during a visit to Arbroath Abbey, in Arbroath, Scotland, yesterday....
HARARE: Zimbabwe police beat up and arrested opposition activists and a journalist during a rally yesterday, witnesses said, as regional leaders met for...