Oman Parliament, Al Bustan, Muscat. Photo courtesy: Times of Oman MUSCAT: Oman’s parliament voted on Thursday to sharply raise taxes on the petrochemical...
Oman Parliament, Al Bustan, Muscat. Photo courtesy: Times of Oman MUSCAT: Oman’s parliament voted on Thursday to sharply raise taxes on the petrochemical...
A woman passes by photos of EgyptAir flight 804 victims, at the Cairo Opera House in Cairo, Egypt May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd...
BAGHDAD: Civilians who managed to flee besieged Falluja have reported cases of starvation in the Iraqi city that government forces are trying to...
BELGRADE, Serbia: A Turkish Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 300 passengers and crew made an unscheduled landing on Wednesday at Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport...
Cairo: Muslim villagers south of Egypt's capital set ablaze Christian homes and assaulted an elderly woman paraded naked in public over rumours of...
Iraqi pro-government forces fire an anti-tank cannon near al-Sejar village, north-east of Fallujah, on May 25, 2016, as they take part in a...
ANKARA: Turkey’s foreign minister called on Thursday for the implementation of a “real political transition” to a new Syria. Mevlut Cavusoglu said: “A...
By Halit SuleymanIDLIB, Syria: Four civilians lost their lives and 15 others were injured Thursday when a regime warplane targeted a market in...
An aid truck of the UN World Food Programm (WFP) drives past destroyed buildings the town of Al-Houla, on the northern outskirts of...
Jacques Seigne, Emeritus Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, sits with architects as he points at some affected areas...
source: Youtube HATAY, Turkey: Over the past ten days, 71 people -- including opposition fighters -- have been killed in attacks carried out...
Iraqi pro-government fighters hold position in al-Shahabi village, east of Fallujah, on May 24, 2016, as part of a major assault to retake...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Avigdor Lieberman (L), the head of hardline nationalist party Yisrael Beitenu, are seen during a ceremony...
A damaged minaret of a mosque is pictured in the rebel-held area of Deraa, Syria May 24, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir BEIRUT: Two Syrian...
REUTERS/ FILE PHOTO By Saif Hameed BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric urged the forces battling to retake Falluja from Sunni militants Islamic State...
File photo By Matt Smith DUBAI: A $16.5 billion mass transit project planned for Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca has been delayed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun...
Jerusalem: A leading Israeli human rights group announced Wednesday it was giving up taking complaints over soldiers' conduct to the military, after years...