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Arab coalition air forces destroy Houthi positions in Al-Jawf province
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah downed an Israeli unmanned aircraft outside the southern town of Ramyah near the border with Israel, the movement’s Al-Manar TV said early ... -
Lebanon’s Hezbollah downs Israeli drone: Al-Manar TV
BEIRUT: Iran-backed Hezbollah said it downed an Israeli drone in southern Lebanon early on Monday, a week after the group’s leader said it would shoot ... -
Russians go to polls after summer of protests
MOSCOW: Russians voted Sunday in local elections after weeks of opposition protests that led to the biggest police crackdown on dissent in nearly a decade. ... -
Real peace will come when Taliban stop violence, hold direct talks: Afghan government
TORONTO: Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx on Saturday called on America to tackle the “sinister undercurrent” of racism in its justice system, as his courthouse drama set ... -
Foxx, Jordan tackle Deep South racism in Oscar-tipped film
MELBOURNE: Australian firefighters battled more than 100 bushfires across two eastern states on Sunday as authorities warned that parts of the country could expected a ... -
Turkish military enters Syria to begin joint US safe zone patrol
Tehran: The acting head of the UN atomic watchdog, Cornel Feruta, arrived in Tehran on Sunday for high-level talks with Iranian officials, the semi-official ISNA ... -
Atomic watchdog chief in Iran for high-level talks
DUBAI: Iran’s nuclear chief said on Sunday the European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal have failed to fulfill their commitments under the pact, a ... -
Syrian regime forces ‘foil drone attack’ on army base in northwest
TUNIS: Days before the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election, the fledgling democracy is holding three nights of televised debates between the candidates, a rare ... -
North Korean leader berates officials over typhoon preparations
MOSCOW: A long-awaited exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev has begun, Russian state television reported on Saturday, broadcasting footage of buses leaving a jail ... -
Preparations for Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange underway
HONG KONG: Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong on Saturday in a bid to thwart plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport in ... -
Riot police deployed as Hong Kong protesters target airport
HONG KONG: Riot police fanned out across Hong Kong on Saturday in a bid to thwart plans by pro-democracy protesters to target the airport in ... -
Israel strikes in Gaza after rocket attack
TEHRAN: Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into advanced centrifuges in violation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a spokesman said Saturday. Behrouz ... -
Iran warns ‘not much time left’ to save deal
TEHRAN: Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a “fuel-smuggling ring” in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the semi-official news ... -
Satellite images show Iran tanker Adrian Darya-1 sought by US off Syria
JEDDAH: Members of Sudan’s Jewish community who had left the country in previous years were free to return and “enjoy citizenship” like other ethnic groups, ... -
Taliban attack third Afghan provincial capital in a week
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic ... -
Robert Mugabe, longtime Zimbabwe leader, dead at 95
HARARE, Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic ... -
Hong Kong braces for weekend protests as embattled Carrie Lam fails to appease activists
MANILA: “All is set” for the decommissioning of former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters and their weapons on Saturday, Murad Ibrahim, interim chief minister ... -
Courier services face competition from Syrian refugee entrepreneur’s mobile app
CAIRO: The best way to experience cuisine during a holiday is to eat out with a local. That way you will avoid the “touristy” places, ... -
Egyptian startup showcases beauty of Cairo’s food heritage
DUBAI: After struggling to obtain paperwork to get his daughter’s birth legally registered, a Syrian refugee has created a peer-to-peer mobile app that enables people ... -
Not having nuclear warheads ‘unacceptable,’ Ankara says
ANKARA: As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted on Wednesday that Turkey may need to obtain missiles with nuclear warheads, the possible repercussions of such ...
