RIYADH: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Thursday arrived in Riyadh on a short brotherly visit to the Kingdom of Saudi...
RIYADH: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Thursday arrived in Riyadh on a short brotherly visit to the Kingdom of Saudi...
Sanaa--Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Thursday hit Yemen's defence ministry in the capital Sanaa which is controlled by Shiite rebels and...
Yerevan--US reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Thursday met Armenia's prime minister in a first visit to celebrate her family's roots that is...
Cairo--Egyptian jihadist group Ajnad Misr confirmed Thursday the death of its leader, Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, who police said was shot dead in a...
Washington--A Wisconsin man has been charged with providing support to Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, where he allegedly planned to join...
Tehran--Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday denounced air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition against Shiite rebels in Yemen as "criminal acts"....
New Delhi--India on Thursday suspended Greenpeace India's foreign funding licence, the latest move against the environmental watchdog after the government accused it of...
Sri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena Colombo--Sri Lanka said Thursday it was dropping promised plans to strip the president of some of his...
Johannesburg--Over a thousand immigrants in South Africa have fled their homes following a series of violent attacks by locals in the eastern port...
Oslo--A Norwegian freelance journalist has been arrested in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and accused spying, media reports said on Thursday. Raymond Lidal, 28,...
Khartoum--Two top Sudanese political figures were freed from detention Thursday without explanation, days before national elections, their lawyer said. Farouk Abu Issa and...
Paris--French television network TV5Monde was forced to broadcast only pre-recorded programmes Thursday after an "unprecedented" hack by self-proclaimed Islamic State militants, who also...
Damascus--A group of 14 Palestinian factions said Thursday they backed a joint military operation with the Syrian government to expel Islamic State group...
Dhaka--Bangladesh has made swimming lessons mandatory in schools to try to save the thousands of children who drown every year, a government official...
Algiers--Algerian troops killed four armed Islamists and recovered weapons and ammunition during an operation not far from the capital on Thursday, the defence...
Tehran--A framework nuclear deal reached with world powers last week is no guarantee a full agreement will be reached by the end of...
Milan--An armed man facing bankruptcy shot dead a judge and lawyer in a Milan court on Thursday and wounded two other people before...
Kiev--The Ukraine parliament on Thursday voted to ban all "propaganda by the totalitarian Communist and Nazi regimes". A total of 254 members of...
