A Syrian Army tank bearing a Syrian national flag is seen in Sheikh Maksoud, Aleppo, yesterday. BEIRUT: Syria’s air force staged new strikes...
A Syrian Army tank bearing a Syrian national flag is seen in Sheikh Maksoud, Aleppo, yesterday. BEIRUT: Syria’s air force staged new strikes...
JERUSALEM: Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon warned yesterday that Israel would respond to any attacks on its territory and not allow its people to...
Tunis: Tunisia has jailed an Islamist militant on suspicion of incitement to terrorism after he called on television for young compatriots to join...
KHARTOUM: Eritrean refugees kidnapped in Sudan are raped, beaten, chained and sometimes killed after being forcibly transported to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and held...
CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign ministry summoned the charge d’affaires of the United Arab Emirates over the case of 11 Egyptians detained in the Gulf...
Policemen watch flames rising from the burning ‘Grozny City’ luxury apartment tower in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia, yesterday. MOSCOW: A fire raged in...
PARIS: The French government yesterday fought to limit the damage from a former minister’s admission that he had lied over the existence of...
The operation centre of the European Space Agency’s Space Weather Coordination Centre in Brussels. BRUSSELS: Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre...
BRUSSELS/BELGRADE: Crunch talks to end the ethnic partition of Serbia’s former Kosovo province broke up without result yesterday , in a potential blow...
BERLIN: German sappers successfully defused a World War II bomb unearthed near Berlin’s main train station in a delicate operation that snarled rail...
Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan in his office during an interview. DUBAI: Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab states are often wary of subversion from...
A Palestinian protester peeks at Israeli troops from behind old doors used as cover during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron...
DUBAI: Seven international human rights groups yesterday criticised a “secret” trial in the United Arab Emirates of 94 Islamist dissidents, saying refusal to...
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s parliament approved a law yesterday to buy some citizens’ personal loans and write off the interest after lawmakers argued that banks...
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has reinstated a visa waiver for Canadian citizens it withdrew amid a dispute over landing rights more than...
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet on Sunday in Amman with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is pushing for...
DOHA: Prominent Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi has issued an edict (fatwa) urging fellow Islamic clerics and senior members of management of...