Yemeni pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition take position in Loder, in the southern Abyan province, on August 10, 2015. ADEN: Gulf-backed...
Yemeni pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition take position in Loder, in the southern Abyan province, on August 10, 2015. ADEN: Gulf-backed...
Yemenis gather at the site of a car bomb attack targeting a house of a senior Houthi leader, Mohammed al-Marwany, in Sanaa, Yemen. ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, prays during the opening ceremony of Kibledagi mosque in Rize, Turkey, yesterday. Istanbul:...
Diyarbakir, Turkey: A senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) yesterday warned that Turkey would pay “a heavy price” for its offensive...
Bahraini protesters hold placards during a demonstration against the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shia opposition movement Al Wefaq, and...
A woman holds a picture of Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan during a protest in solidarity with him, in the West Bank village of...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has broken up a new three-member “terror” cell and seized large quantities of weapons, ammunition and explosives, the interior ministry...
ANKARA: Turkey faces a snap election this autumn after talks on forming a coalition government broke down yesterday, increasing uncertainty in the Nato...
Addis Ababa: South Sudan’s rival forces have made little if any progress at talks on ending the civil war, the government has warned,...
Ankara: US warplanes have carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish...
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus. They discussed about finding a solution to Syria’s four-year...
Iraqi men look at the damage following a bomb explosion that targeted a vegetable market in Baghdad’s northern Shia district of Sadr City...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (left) with the leader of main opposition CHP, Kemal Kilicdaroglu (second right), during their meeting for a coalition...
Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday to express concern about a visit to Moscow...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister dismissed his cabinet secretary yesterday as part of an ambitious reform drive he said was under threat from corrupt...
United Nations: US President Barack Obama will host a summit in New York next month of leaders of the international coalition fighting Islamic...
Tripoli: The future of Libya’s internationally recognised government was uncertain yesterday after Prime Minister Abdullah Al Thinni threatened to resign, and as the...