Middle East

Any new attack would be ‘another failure’: Iran

23 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Iran executes man over espionage

19 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Netanyahu says will run for PM in next year's election

19 October 2025, 02:53 AM News

Nuclear deal with west / Iran ‘terminates’ all mechanisms

18 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Israeli forces kill 11-year-old in West Bank

17 October 2025, 18:00 PM News

Palestinians touring Europe to boost state recognition

15 October 2025, 18:58 PM News

Iran says Trump's call for peace 'at odds' with US actions

14 October 2025, 06:08 AM News

Turkish men in skirts support women's rights

It's not unusual for men to join the fight for women's rights. But it is if they choose to wear miniskirts while they do it.

23 February 2015, 18:49 PM

Police scramble to find teens

Six days ago, the trio of British girls ran away from home and flew from London to Istanbul. It's unclear where 15-year-olds Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana are.

23 February 2015, 18:49 PM

I am still the legitimate president

Yemen's president sought to resume his duties as head of state yetserday, holding his first public engagement with state officials since he fled house arrest in Sanaa by the Houthi group that dominates the northern half of the country.

22 February 2015, 18:53 PM

Was ISIS's Libya execution video fake?

Parts of a sickening video released by Islamic State militants that shows members of the terror group beheading 21 Coptic Christians have been faked, experts have claimed.

22 February 2015, 18:51 PM

US signals delay in troop pullout from Afghanistan

President Barack Obama's new Pentagon chief yesterday said the United States was seriously considering slowing the pace of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as the country faces a growing Taliban insurgency.

21 February 2015, 18:44 PM

UN ready to release list of accused

UN investigators yesterday said they were prepared to publish secret lists of alleged war criminals in Syria to help stem an "exponential rise" in atrocities from nearly four years of war.

21 February 2015, 18:41 PM

ISIS did what West couldn't

Just when Washington and Nato feared they were going to be bombing ISIS on their own, the self-styled “Islamic State” has single-handedly created a new Arab military alliance to bomb the West's enemies.

17 February 2015, 19:02 PM

Attempt to oust Benjamin Netanyahu

For years Arabs have been effectively marginalised in Israel's political life.

16 February 2015, 18:24 PM

20,000 fighters head to Syria

Foreign fighters are flocking to Syria at an "unprecedented" rate, with more than 20,000 volunteers from around the world joining the Islamic State or other extremist groups, US intelligence officials said Tuesday.

11 February 2015, 19:01 PM

Diplomats quit crisis-hit Yemen

Western governments evacuated their diplomats from Yemen yesterday as conflict deepened in the impoverished Saudi neighbour which has long been on the front line of the war against al-Qaeda.

11 February 2015, 19:01 PM

Israel to settle Jews in Jerusalem

CAIRO, July 8 : Israel's !lousing Minister Ariel Sharon has pledged to settle one mil-lion Jews in and around Jerusalem on lands captured from the Arabs in the 1967 Middle East war, reports Xinhua.

8 July 1991, 18:00 PM

Arafat prepares for direct talks with Israel

Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat has said that he was prepared for direct negotiations with Israel on the principles of 'territory for peace and recognition of the Palestinians' right to a state, which would be guaranteed by the US, USSR, and the international community, reports Pool.