Pilgrims arrive for the Maghrib prayer at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah yesterday. The annual Haj pilgrimage begins tomorrow,...
Pilgrims arrive for the Maghrib prayer at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah yesterday. The annual Haj pilgrimage begins tomorrow,...
AL RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's United Cooperative Assurance said on Sunday it had received a claim from Saudi Binladin Group over the collapse of...
People wave the Turkish national flag at an "antiterorrism" rally in Istanbul on September 20, 2015 (AFP ) ISTANBUL: More than 100,000 people...
Reuters BEIRUT: A new ceasefire went into effect on Sunday between Syrian pro-government forces and Islamist rebels in three battleground districts, a local...
Migrants wait on a dinghy with a broken motor following an attempt to reach the Greek Island of Kos after leaving Bodrum, Turkey,...
A member of the Iraqi security forces shows his passport as he prepares to travel, at the international airport in Najaf, south of...
Smoke rises from the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa September 18, 2015. DUBAI: A Saudi-led coalition has denied...
An Egyptian miltary convoy in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish (AFP) CAIRO: Unidentified assailants gunned down an Egyptian police general on the...
Libyan Red Crescent workers in Tripoli port help migrants who were rescued after their boat sank off Libya. Rome: Twenty rescue operations yesterday...
French President Francois Hollande speaks to journalists upon his arrival at Ibn Battouta airport in Boukhalef, 10km south of Tangiers, Morocco, yesterday. Tangiers,...
A Palestinian youth shows how to abseil into one of the tunnels on the Gaza side after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels beneath...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (right) meets with Sharif Ismail at the presidential palace in Cairo. Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi swore in...
GAZA: Coordination Committee for entry of goods in the Gaza Strip said that the Karam Abu Salem crossing was opened on Sunday morning...
SANA’A: Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen’s interior ministry in the capital, Sana’a, late on Friday and launched several other raids on...
GENEVA: The State of Qatar that it will stand by the Syrian people during their crisis by providing all the necessary humanitarian aid,...
DIYARBAKIR (Turkey): At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources...
Members of Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies sit on a Syrian army MiG-21 fighter jet after they seized the Abu Duhur military...
Displaced populations in Iraq have been affected by the lack of clean water. BAGHDAD: A suspected cholera outbreak has killed four people west...
