Dhaka: An Islamist extremist in custody for allegedly stabbing two police officers was killed in a shoot-out Thursday when gunmen attacked the van...
Dhaka: An Islamist extremist in custody for allegedly stabbing two police officers was killed in a shoot-out Thursday when gunmen attacked the van...
KINSHASA: Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have expelled a Greenpeace employee and a filmmaker following a trip to forest communities affected by...
Tunis: A group of visitors at a Tunisia zoo has stoned a crocodile to death, authorities in the capital said Wednesday, denouncing the...
Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, marks his 80th birthday on Thursday...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A bomb in Somali capital Mogadishu killed an intelligence official and left three civilians injured on Wednesday, police said. Police Capt....
ISTANBUL: Turkish municipalities revealed on Wednesday that nearly four percent of Istanbul’s population are Syrian refugees. The Marmara Municipalities’ Union published a report...
Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a settler whose home he broke into in the occupied West Bank before the Israeli shot him...
DAKAR: The death from childbirth of a woman named Time magazine “Person of the Year” in 2014 for her work fighting Ebola in...
Forests engulf fields that used to produce some of the world’s best tobacco around the northern Zimbabwean town of Banket, while barns that...
BOGOR, Indonesia: Saudi Arabia pledged $1 billion in development finance for Indonesia and expanded cooperation in other areas, deepening ties with Southeast Asia's...
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe: As Zimbabwe’s health service buckles amid low levels of public funding and a government freeze on hiring medical staff, volunteers have...
Damascus: Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group in the ancient city of Palmyra and restored in Italy have been returned...
Beirut: Heavy fighting between the Syrian army and rebels has shaken several Damascus suburbs, leaving 13 regime fighters dead, a monitoring group said...
ISTANBUL: A film looking into the life of civil defense volunteers in war-torn Syria has won an Oscar for best short documentary. “We...
PARIS: Conservative candidate Francois Fillon said on Wednesday he would not pull out of the French presidential election campaign despite being summoned by ...
BEIRUT: Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said on Wednesday, as...
Kabul: At least one person was killed and 39 wounded as suicide bombers targeted Afghan security force facilities at two locations in Kabul...
Baghdad: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from jihadists,...
