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Regime strikes kill 6 civilians in Ghouta
Syrian regime air strikes killed six civilians including two children overnight in Eastern Ghouta after a day of respite from deadly
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Egypt army kills 16 jihadists in Sinai
Egypt's army yesterday said it had killed 16 jihadists and detained 34 more in the Sinai Peninsula since launching a major operation
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1 in 4 children in poverty after war on IS: UN
One in four Iraqi children are in poverty and four million are in need of assistance as a result of the country's war with Islamic State
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Israel vows to prevent Iran
Israel yesterday issued stark warnings over Iran's presence in neighbouring Syria after a confrontation threatened to open a new and
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‘Saudi women should not have to wear abaya robes’
Saudi women need not wear the abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith - a senior member of the top Muslim clerical body said, another indication of the Kingdom's efforts towards modernisation.
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Egypt air raids pound militants in Sinai
Egypt's air force pounded militant targets in northern and central Sinai early yesterday, the military said, the second day of an assault to
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UNSC mulling 30-day Syria ceasefire
The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for urgent deliveries of
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Long robes not necessary for Saudi women: cleric
Saudi women need not wear the abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith - a senior member of the top
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India hopes Palestine to be a free country soon
Narendra Modi yesterday became the first Indian prime minister to visit the occupied West Bank where he held talks with Palestinian
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Peace means compromise
US President Donald Trump yesterday told Israel that it too would need to make "significant compromises" for peace with the
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No let-up in Syria violence
France demanded an end to air strikes in Syria yesterday as warplanes mounted further attacks on a rebel stronghold near Damascus where a war monitor said government bombardments have killed 229 people, the deadliest week in the area since 2015.
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Tensions, bloodshed escalates
The US-led coalition yesterday said it killed at least 100 pro-regime fighters to fend off an attack on its allies in eastern Syria, in one
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Al-Qaeda still going strong as IS crumbles
Al-Qaeda's global network remains "remarkably resilient," posing more of a threat in some regions than the Islamic State group, UN
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Netanyahu lashes out at cops as probe nears end
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at police over claims detectives probing graft allegations against him were
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Saudi Arabia executes 4 Pakistanis for murder
Saudi Arabia yesterday executed four Pakistani men convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior
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Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli
A Palestinian stabbed a security guard at the entrance to an Israeli settlement and was shot dead yesterday, the army said, in the latest
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Death toll soars in Ghouta
Fresh regime strikes killed 32 civilians yesterday in a rebel-held enclave near Damascus where overwhelmed medics were still treating the
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Deadly air raids hit Syria
Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 35 civilians yesterday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Yemen rebel missile shot down: Saudi
Saudi air defences intercepted a ballistic missile fired at the kingdom by Yemen's Shia Huthi rebels yesterday, state media reported. The
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Man shot trying to enter Iran presidency
Iranian security forces shot and wounded a man who tried to enter the president's office in central Tehran by force yesterday, local media
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Regime air strikes kill 23 people near Damascus
At least 23 civilians were killed yesterday as Syrian government air strikes pounded a rebel-held enclave near the capital Damascus, a
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Israel legalises West Bank settlement
Israel yesterday granted legal status to a previously unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank in response to a Palestinian shooting attack last month that killed one of its residents.
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Israeli planes hit Hamas in Gaza
Israeli aircraft hit a Hamas compound in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, after Palestinians there fired a rocket into the Jewish state,
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Brazil ex-president Lula to get his passport back
A Brazilian federal judge on Friday ordered that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's seized passport be returned. A lower court
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29 women held
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since
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'Death to Pakistan'
Demonstrators yesterday protested outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul as senior Afghan officials said they had handed over
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Saudi, UAE step up efforts to end crisis
Saudi and Emirati envoys shuttled between Yemeni government forces and besieging southern separatists in second city Aden yesterday
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Terrorism: Afghan spy chief visits Pakistan
Afghanistan's intelligence chief Masoom Stanekzai visited Pakistan yesterday, officials said, at a time when tension
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Strong quake hits India, Pak, Afghanistan
A powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, sending
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56 people still held; $107b recovered
Saudi Arabia's attorney general said yesterday $107 billion has been recovered so far in a major crackdown on high-
