Clashes in northwest Syria kill 35 fighters

Clashes on the edge of a jihadist bastion in northwestern Syria have killed 35 fighters in 24 hours, a monitor said yesterday, after regime
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Israel says site found for ‘Trump’ settlement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a site for a promised new settlement to be named after US President Donald
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM

If they make a move we will hit them in the head

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday, as President Hassan Rouhani warned of greater hardship following biting US sanctions.
12 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Rebels faking Yemen ports pullout: govt

A senior pro-government official yesterday accused Yemen’s Huthi rebels of faking an announced pullout from three Red Sea ports in the flashpoint province of Hodeida.
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during new clashes on the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled enclave said.
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Israel lifts Gaza fishing ban as calm returns

Israel yesterday lifted a ban on Palestinian fishing boats operating off Gaza, an Israeli military body said, ending a measure imposed during a deadly flare-up of violence earlier this month.
10 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Dozens feared dead off Tunisia coast

At least 50 migrants drowned yesterday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the United Nations migration agency said.
10 May 2019, 18:00 PM

514 foreign IS members convicted in Iraq: court

The Iraqi judiciary has tried and sentenced 514 foreigners since the start of 2018 for joining the Islamic State group, the country’s Supreme Court announced yesterday.
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Taliban attack int’l NGO in Kabul; 5 killed, dozens hurt

Taliban militants stormed a US-funded aid group’s central Kabul compound yesterday, having targeted the organisation for promoting Western culture and the “inter-mixing” of men and women.
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

2015 Iran nuke deal

Iran yesterday, a year to the day after the US withdrew from the accord, said it has decided to suspend some of its commitments under
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Iran partially retreats on nuke deal

Iran yesterday said it had stopped respecting limits on its nuclear activities agreed under a 2015 deal with major powers until they find a way to bypass renewed US sanctions.
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Drone strike ‘kills 4 Qaeda men’ in Yemen

A suspected US drone strike killed four alleged al-Qaeda jihadists in central Yemen yesterday, a security official in the area said. The
7 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Idlib truce in jeopardy

Air strikes and shelling killed 13 civilians in northwestern Syria yesterday, a monitor said, in the latest escalation to rattle a months-old truce and spark displacement.
7 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Libya’s Haftar orders troops to fight harder

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government
6 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Taliban attack Afghan police headquarter

At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a police
5 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Air strikes kill 9 in Syria’s Idlib

At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria’s government and its ally Russia in the northwest
5 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Erdogan condemns ‘Israeli terrorism, atrocities in Gaza’

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey’s state news
5 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Ramadan in Saudi Arabia begins tomorrow

Saudi Arabian will start fasting on the month of Ramadan from Monday as the country’s moon observers said the crescent of Ramadan was not sighted Saturday, the Arab News reports.
5 May 2019, 09:54 AM

Gaza ceasefire falters again

Gaza militants yesterday fired a barrage of dozens of rockets at Israel, which responded with strikes that killed a Palestinian, officials said, as a fragile ceasefire again faltered.
4 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Ousted Bashir to be grilled

Sudan’s prosecutor general has ordered the questioning of ousted president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and “financing terrorism”, the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday.
3 May 2019, 18:00 PM