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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Saudi blames Iran for Hajj impasse
Saudi Arabia, which oversees the pilgrimage to Makkah, accused Iran of depriving its citizens of the religious duty after talks on
1 June 2016, 20:21 PM
Taliban raid kills 6 in Afghan courthouse
Taliban suicide bombers wearing police uniforms raided a courthouse in the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni yesterday,
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
China stowaway found in hold of Dubai flight
A Chinese teenager has been found hiding in the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger jet that had flown from Shanghai to Dubai.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Black box pings detected
A French navy vessel equipped with deep-water listening devices has detected signals from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, investigators said yesterday.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Falluja assault stalled
Iraqi forces yesterday stalled at the fringes of Fallujah, slowed in their advance by concerns over the fate of trapped civilians and resistance from the Islamic State group.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
'Human catastrophe' in Fallujah
A “human catastrophe” is looming in Fallujah as up to 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the IS-held Iraqi city during a continuing government assault.
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Saudi intercepts missile from Yemen: coalition
Saudi Arabia intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Monday night, the military coalition supporting the
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Ex-Miss Turkey gets jail 'for insulting Erdogan'
A Turkish court yesterday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Afghan Taliban kill 16 bus passengers
The Taliban yesterday killed at least 16 people and kidnapped dozens of others after pulling them off buses in
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Duterte endorses killing of corrupt journos
Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said that corrupt journalists were legitimate targets of
31 May 2016, 18:00 PM
IS hits back as army moves into Falluja
Militants from the so-called Islamic State have launch a dawn counter-attack as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Falluja.
31 May 2016, 13:39 PM
Fallujah assault in 'hours'
Elite Iraqi troops were yesterday poised to assault one of the Islamic State group's most emblematic bastions, Fallujah, as the jihadists counterattacked in both Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
IS advance near Turkish border, civilians trapped
Islamic State fighters capture territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border and inch closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
28 May 2016, 04:46 AM
'Extremist govt'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered his second cabinet resignation in a week yesterday when a
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Warplanes pummel ‘IS capital’
Warplanes from the US-led coalition have pounded the Islamic State group with at least 150 strikes to bolster a
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Saudi Arabia hopes for religious tourism boost
With Saudi Arabia's government announcing reforms aimed at moving the kingdom away from its dependence on oil, another source of income looks set to become a major contributor to the economy - religious tourism.
26 May 2016, 04:31 AM
Yemen peace talks 'closer' to deal: UN
The UN envoy yesterday said that Yemen's warring parties were closer to agreement at peace talks in Kuwait as he
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Egypt quashes jail terms for 47 protesters
An Egyptian appeals court has overturned five-year prison sentences for 47 people for participating in unauthorised
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Israel moves rightwards
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined forces yesterday with a hardline nationalist who is set to become
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Akhundzada elected as Afghan Taliban leader
The Afghan Taliban named an Islamic legal scholar who was one of former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour's deputies to succeed him yesterday, after confirming Mansour's death in a US drone strike at the weekend.
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM