Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Keep dreaming’
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Iran executes man over espionage
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election
19 October 2025, 02:53 AM
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Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Just a wasteland’
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank
17 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition
15 October 2025, 18:58 PM
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Aid trucks roll into Gaza
15 October 2025, 18:50 PM
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Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions
14 October 2025, 06:08 AM
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Bangladeshis killed in Saudi crash identified
Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh identifies the 10 Bangladeshi workers who were killed in a road crash last Thursday. They were killed when a minibus, carrying them to Madina from Dammam, fell in a ditch due to a burst tyre in a place named Shaqra.
3 May 2019, 12:04 PM
Coalition hits Yemen rebel drone site
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen raided a drone facility used by Huthi rebels at an airbase in the capital Sanaa, a spokesman
2 May 2019, 18:00 PM
US, Taliban peace summit wraps up
Afghan officials yesterday called for a ceasefire as a huge peace summit wound down in Kabul after thousands of delegates spent days discussing possible conditions for a peace deal with the Taliban.
2 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Fighting in Syria displaces 140,000
Fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the UN said on Wednesday, as the regime and its ally Russia have stepped up their bombardment.
2 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Iran threatens to shut Hormuz Strait
Iran’s top general yesterday warned Tehran could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route if it faces more “hostility”, news agency ISNA said, as the US tightens up sanctions.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Jihadists kill 22 pro-regime Syria fighters
Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 22 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early yesterday, a war monitor said.
27 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia executed convicts after forced confessions: CNN
Long before Saudi Arabia announced it had carried out one of the largest mass executions in its history earlier this week, some of the men condemned to death said they were innocent and their confessions had been written by the same people who had tortured them, a media report said yesterday.
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Two children killed in Yemen fighting
Two children were killed yesterday as fighting resumed between pro-government militias in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taez, local
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Iran denounces US talks with Taliban
Iran on Wednesday criticised US talks with the Taliban on ending the Afghanistan war, saying Washington was elevating the role of the militants.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
KSA executes 37
At least 33 of the 37 Saudis executed by the kingdom in a single day belonged to the Sunni-dominated country’s Shia minority, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
24 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.
24 April 2019, 05:02 AM
Iran, Pak to set up joint reaction force
Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint border “reaction force” following a number of deadly attacks by militant groups on their frontier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday after talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
22 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Strike destroys Yemen rebels’ drone cave
The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched an air raid on a cave in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, used by Huthi rebels to stockpile drones, a
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Militants attack Afghan ministry
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the communications ministry in central Kabul on Saturday, officials said, in a deadly, hours-long
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Macron meets Kurds, vows French support
President Emmanuel Macron yesterday hosted representatives of the Kurdish-led force that defeated IS extremists in Syria, assuring them of France’s
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Turkey arrests two suspected UAE spies
Turkey has arrested two men suspected of spying for the United Arab Emirates and is probing if they are tied to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Netanyahu formally named next Israeli PM
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday formally handed Benjamin Netanyahu his letter of appointment to start building a coalition
18 April 2019, 19:23 PM
Death toll tops 200 in battle for Tripoli
At least 205 people have been killed and more than 900 wounded in the battle for control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
18 April 2019, 19:20 PM
Drive back Zionism: Iran President Rouhani
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani yesterday called on Middle East states to “drive back Zionism”, in an Army Day tirade against the Islamic
18 April 2019, 19:20 PM
Afghan peace talks abruptly postponed
A meeting between the Taliban and Afghan politicians and civil society aimed at ending more than 17 years of war in Afghanistan has been postponed, officials and diplomats said yesterday, citing Taliban objections to the size of the Afghan delegation.
18 April 2019, 18:53 PM