Beirut: US-backed fighters inched forwards in Raqa's Old City against fierce resistance Wednesday, after penetrating the heart of the Islamic State group's Syrian...
Beirut: US-backed fighters inched forwards in Raqa's Old City against fierce resistance Wednesday, after penetrating the heart of the Islamic State group's Syrian...
Geneva: Talks aimed at ending the decades-old conflict on Cyprus have been temporarily suspended at the request of the two sides, but were...
KARACHI, Pakistan: Death toll in late last month's fuel tanker blast in Pakistan’s northeastern Punjab province has risen to 212, a government official...
YANGON, Myanmar: A Buddhist mob stoned a Rohingya man to death and wounded six others in the country’s western Rakhine state, the government...
LAGOS, Nigeria: At least 150 people were killed and several thousand others displaced in communal clashes last week in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Cross...
HATAY, Turkey: Turkish security forces on Tuesday arrrested a Syrian national carrying an explosive belt in southern Turkey’s Hatay province, according to a...
BAGHDAD: Scores of civilians were killed in late June amid an ongoing Iraqi army campaign aimed at retaking the northern city of Mosul...
ACCRA, Ghana: A 15-member rescue team was deployed on Tuesday to search for survivors after 14 miners died in a collapsed mine in...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Tuesday said his country agreed to conduct joint border operations with Pakistan. His statement came two...
DAMASCUS: Assad regime warplanes on Tuesday struck the city of Douma east of capital Damascus, which lies within one of several so-called de-escalation...
LONDON: British new car registrations fell by an annual 4.8 percent in June, the first time in six years sales have fallen for...
ANKARA: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that finding solutions to the issues plaguing the Korean peninsula constituted a "joint foreign policy...
Dubai: Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Bahraini authorities to release a detained human rights activist it said was at "high risk of torture"....
Paris: The cost of lighting up at a French sidewalk cafe may finally dissuade even the most ardent smoker, if Prime Minister Edouard...
Rome: Italy summoned Austria's ambassador Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border to stop migrants entering, as the number crossing...
Montreal: Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured in Afghanistan...
Beirut: US-backed forces have penetrated the heavily fortified heart of jihadist bastion Raqa for the first time, in a key milestone in the...
BELFAST: Northern Ireland’s largest Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein on Tuesday blamed a deal between the rival Democratic Unionist Party and British Prime...
