Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran
23 October 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Keep dreaming’
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Iran executes man over espionage
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election
19 October 2025, 02:53 AM
Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Just a wasteland’
18 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank
17 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition
15 October 2025, 18:58 PM
Aid trucks roll into Gaza
15 October 2025, 18:50 PM
Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions
14 October 2025, 06:08 AM
Nowhere in Israel will be spared in case of war
Fears of a regional war rose yesterday after Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement said none of Israel would be spared in a full-blown conflict, and Israel said it had approved plans for a Lebanon offensive.
20 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia
20 June 2024, 12:32 PM
Scorching Heat: Hajj death toll surges past 900
Friends and family searched for missing hajj pilgrims yesterday as the death toll at the annual rituals, which were carried out in scorching heat, surged past 900.
19 June 2024, 18:00 PM
1.5m pilgrims reach Makkah as hajj begins today
More than 1.5 million Muslims will begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in the Saudi holy city of Makkah today.
13 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Kuwait fire kills 49 Indian workers
A fire in Kuwait killed 49 people, all Indian nationals, when it ripped through a building housing nearly 200 foreign workers yesterday, the government said.
12 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Fire in Kuwaiti building housing workers kills 41
At least 35 people were killed in a building fire in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait, the country's state media reported on Wednesday
12 June 2024, 07:57 AM
49 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen: IOM
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, mostly women and children, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route from Africa, a UN agency said yesterday.
11 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Hamas accepts UN-backed Gaza truce plan
Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the Israeli offensive in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian group said yesterday in what the US Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”.
11 June 2024, 18:00 PM
3 fighters killed after Israel strikes
Hezbollah said yesterday that it targeted an Israeli military position following overnight strikes in eastern Lebanon that killed three of its fighters, hours after the Iran-backed group downed an Israeli drone.
11 June 2024, 18:00 PM
D-8 group urges world to up pressure on Israel
An alliance of mostly Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Egypt and Iran yesterday demanded full Palestinian membership of the United Nations and greater international pressure on Israel amid the Gaza war.
8 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Hajj pilgrimage to start June 14: KSA
Saudi Arabia said the hajj will start on June 14 after astronomical observatories spotted the crescent moon Thursday evening, signalling the beginning of the month in which the annual pilgrimage falls.
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Red Sea, Arabian Sea: Houthis attack three ships
Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis said they had launched attacks on three ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea - though shipping giant Maersk MAERSKb.CO dismissed the militants’ report that the targets included one of its vessels.
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Gaza refugees stuck in limbo in Egypt
Every time a plane flies overhead, Mohanad al-Sindawy shudders. It takes him a moment to remember he isn’t in Gaza anymore and that no one is bombing the Egyptian capital.
6 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Eid-ul-Azha in Saudi Arabia on June 16
Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday the sighting of the Dhul Hijjah crescent, signalling the beginning of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah, one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar, reports Al Arabiya
6 June 2024, 17:46 PM
European powers seek to censure Iran at UN nuclear meeting
Britain, France and Germany will seek to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog at its board meeting starting today despite US opposition, diplomats told AFP
3 June 2024, 16:04 PM
Israel accepts Biden’s Gaza truce plan
An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday confirmed that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza offensive now being advanced by US President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work.
2 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Kuwait's emir makes Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid crown prince
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah issued a decree nominating Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as crown prince, the state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday
1 June 2024, 20:38 PM
Israel pounds Gaza defying US truce plan
But Netanyahu took issue with Biden’s presentation of what was on the table, insisting on Friday the transition from one stage to the next was “conditional” and crafted to allow Israel to maintain its war aims.
1 June 2024, 18:00 PM
UN mission in Iraq to end after 2 decades
At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq will leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years.
1 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel presses with raids into Rafah
Rafah residents reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire in Gaza’s far-southern city yesterday after Israel said it had seized Philadelphi corridor on the Palestinian territory’s border with Egypt.
30 May 2024, 18:00 PM