BEIRUT: The Syrian army said it had retaken a swathe of territory from Islamic State in southern Syria on Thursday in a rapid...
BEIRUT: The Syrian army said it had retaken a swathe of territory from Islamic State in southern Syria on Thursday in a rapid...
Beirut: The Lebanese army announced that two explosive devices exploded in Ras Baalbek town, eastern Lebanon, without causing any injuries. Two small bombs...
Lusaka: Zambia is considering a proposal to move its capital from fast-developing Lusaka to a nearly uninhabited marshland district in the centre of...
Kathmandu: Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two Indian climbers who died on Mount Everest last year but whose remains could not be...
Hanoi: A man at a wedding in southern Vietnam murdered a fellow guest and seriously injured another after he was booed off stage...
Jakarta: Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad was Thursday investigating a suicide bombing near a Jakarta bus station that killed three policemen in an assault...
Chitkul: Fancy this: Snow-clad mountains dotted with pine trees, a topaz blue sheet spread across the sky and the churlish winter wind almost...
TUBAN, Indonesia: Three policemen were killed Wednesday and 10 other people were injured when two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up near a...
JERUSALEM: The Israeli prison authorities on Wednesday transferred scores of Palestinian hunger strikers, including jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, to hospitals for "health...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least five people including a mother and her child were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a small restaurant...
NAIROBI, Kenya: Five police officers attached to a Kenyan government official were killed Wednesday after their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device...
ARU, Democratic Republic of Congo: An estimated 400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk of severe acute malnutrition as...
CAIRO: President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday denied recent allegations by his Sudanese counterpart that Egypt was supporting armed rebel groups in Sudan’s Darfur...
NINEVEH, Iraq: IS militants have executed 13 Iraqi civilians for trying to flee the northern city of Mosul, a local police officer said...
KARACHI, Pakistan: A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two Pakistani Taliban fighters in North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday afternoon, the militant group...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: At least nine people were reportedly killed Wednesday when a violent sandstorm tore through Mauritania’s Saharan Tagant region. Several people were...
TUNIS: The governor of Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province, which in recent weeks has been rocked by escalating popular demonstrations, abruptly announced his resignation...
KARACHI, Pakistan: A Chinese couple has been kidnapped in the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern province on Tuesday, police said. Aitizaz Ahmed Goraya, head...
