Israeli soldiers stand in the balcony of a Palestinian house in the West Bank village of Tapuah, west of Hebron, yesterday during a...
Israeli soldiers stand in the balcony of a Palestinian house in the West Bank village of Tapuah, west of Hebron, yesterday during a...
Tribal fighters shout slogans while holding weapons during a parade in Najaf, south of Baghdad, yesterday. BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON: Iraq has asked the United States...
Women preparing food at a Syrian refugee camp in the Lebanese village of Zahle in the Bekaa Valley yesterday. AMMAN: Syrian army helicopters...
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that it had recalled its ambassador to Iraq for consultations over the growing unrest and...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia warned yesterday of the risks of a civil war in Iraq with unpredictable consequences for the region, after Sunni militants...
ANKARA: A Turkish court yesterday handed life sentences to two ageing generals behind a 1980 military takeover, the bloodiest in Turkey’s coup-ridden history....
TRIPOLI: Libya condemned the United States yesterday for snatching a man suspected of masterminding the deadly 2012 attack on the US consulate in...
TEHRAN: Iran and world powers started drafting yesterday a comprehensive nuclear agreement but still face many sticking points, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...
US Vice-President Joe Biden (second right) talks with two students during his walk around the Peace and Reconciliation Memory Center in Bogota, Colombia,...
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala (left), Sweden’s Gothenburg City Mayor Anneli Hulthen (right) and Sweden’s Ambassador to Peru Eva Zetterberg (centre) look at a...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama came under pressure from US lawmakers yesterday to persuade Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki to step down over...
London: Lawyers for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who today marks his second anniversary holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, are...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities said yesterday they had found the remains of at least 28 people in a mass grave at a ranch...
WASHINGTON: Four former heads of the US Environmental Protection Agency, who served under Republican presidents, urged lawmakers yesterday to stop bickering over whether...
WASHINGTON: A street outside China’s embassy in Washington moved a step closer to being renamed after jailed democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo yesterday, despite...
WASHINGTON: The United States called on Cuba yesterday to allow an imprisoned American contractor to travel home to attend his mother’s funeral as...
A maritime officer looks out into the sea during a search and rescue operation in Kuala Langat, off Malaysia’s western coast, yesterday. BANTING:...
Women hold banners reading ‘Against the war’ and ‘Don’t break the Article 9’ during a rally opposing the government’s move to change Article...
