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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Refugees from Syria may become citizens
Syrian refugees living in Turkey could eventually be granted Turkish citizenship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
3 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Tears, blood flow as search continues for dear ones
A weeping Zainab Mustafa brought a photo of her husband to the still-smouldering site of a bloody bombing in Baghdad yesterday, seeking word of him and their two missing children.
3 July 2016, 18:00 PM
79 killed in IS attack on Baghdad
At least 79 people have been killed and more than 131 injured in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
3 July 2016, 08:15 AM
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel dies
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel peace laureate who worked to keep alive the memory of Jews slaughtered during World War II, has died aged 87, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center say.
3 July 2016, 05:51 AM
Serbian man kills 5 in cafe shooting
Five people were killed and another 22 were wounded early yesterday when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and opened
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
EgyptAir 'voice recorder memory chips intact'
The memory chips of EgyptAir 804's black box voice recorder are intact and investigators should be able to access it, a
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Israel bombs Gaza after rocket fire
Israeli air strikes hit four sites in the Gaza Strip yesterday, causing damage but no injuries, officials said, after Palestinian militants fired a
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
18 injured in Makkah stampede11
Eighteen pilgrims have been injured in a stampede near Islam's holiest site, Saudi media reported yesterday, as the kingdom continues to
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
End occupation of Afghanistan, new Taliban chierf tells US
New Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada yesteday called on the US to end its "occupation" of Afghanistan in his first message since
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Syrian strikes Damascus suburb after pilot killing
Heavy regime bombardment of a rebel-held Syrian town yesterday killed more than 30 people including two medical
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Bombers 'planned hostage-taking'
The suicide attackers who launched the deadly Istanbul airport assault were planning to take dozens of passengers
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Western nations exploiting Sunni-Shia rift: Rouhani
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani accused Western powers of trying to exploit differences between the world's Sunni
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
West quietly cooperating with Syria regime: Assad
Syrian President Bashar al Assad said in an interview broadcast yesterday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Settlements must stop
Israel should stop building settlements and the Palestinians should cease incitement to violence, the Middle East diplomatic quartet
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Hajj pilgrims to be given e-bracelets
Saudi Arabia is to issue electronic bracelets to pilgrims travelling to Mecca for this year's Hajj, the world's largest Islamic gathering. It follows a stampede last year in which more than 750 people are believed to have died, with 900 injured.
1 July 2016, 15:34 PM
Egypt priest killed in IS-claimed attack
An Egyptian Coptic priest was shot dead yesterday in the Sinai Peninsula where authorities are battling a jihadist insurgency,
30 June 2016, 19:59 PM
Duterte sworn in as president of Philippines
Authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte warned of a "rough ride" after being sworn in as the Philippines' president
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Rumi wasn't yours
Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world's most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Scavenging garbage to supplement salary!
A member of Indonesia's notoriously corrupt police is to be honoured for refusing to accept bribes during his 40-year
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Clashes kill dozens in Syria's Aleppo
At least 70 regime and rebel fighters have been killed in 24 hours in a government assault and a jihadist-led counterattack in
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM