BEIRUT: Syrian activists accused forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday of using chemical agents during the heavy bombardment of rebel-held areas...
BEIRUT: Syrian activists accused forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday of using chemical agents during the heavy bombardment of rebel-held areas...
DUBAI: Dubai-based Arabtec Holdings is in merger talks with Kuwait's Combined Group Contracting Co and Saudi Arabia's Saudi Oger to create a pan-Gulf...
SEOUL: South Korea's second-largest carrier Asiana Airlines said Wednesday it was cancelling charter flights to Fukushima in Japan from October due to radiation...
BEIJING: Heavy rains killed 21 construction workers as flooding spread to northwest China, state media said Wednesday, after severe weather in other parts...
TAIPEI: Taiwan closed offices and suspended flights on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Trami churned towards the island, with meteorologists cautioning against torrential rains...
A man walks on Tahrir Square after it was partially reopened to traffic, in front of tents that remain on the central island...
Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons and sit in cars and pick-up trucks near the frontline in the refugee camp of Yarmouk,...
VIENNA: UN atomic agency chief Yukiya Amano has not been able to narrow Israeli-Arab differences on how to move towards a Middle East...
ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan angered Ankara’s US ally, as well as regional leaders in Egypt and Israel, by accusing Israel yesterday...
RAMALLAH: Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian and wounded two during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank...
BAGHDAD: Eight civilians were among 26 people killed in violence in Iraq on Tuesday, as the Shia-led government hailed arrests made in an...
ALGIERS: Deadly clashes between Arabs and Tuareg raged on into a second week in an Algerian border town yesterday, with another eight people...
AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s forces attacked rebel positions in the eastern city of Deir Al Zor yesterday, days after a rebel...
RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council has criticised Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for threatening to send more fighters to neighbouring Syria after a...
AMMAN: Jordan’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given the go-ahead for a first nuclear research reactor as the desert kingdom, which lacks any oil,...
JUBA: A top army commander in the troubled new nation of South Sudan has been arrested over a string of alleged human rights...
SANAA: Saudi border guards killed a Yemeni man and wounded another yesterday when they opened fire on a group of Yemeni tribesmen who...
The Director of Health Protection and Communicable Diseases, Control at the Supreme Council of Helath, Dr Mohammed Al Hajiri. (left) and Secretary General...
