Baghdad: Iraqi forces captured a neighbourhood in east Mosul yesterday, pushing deeper to the heart of Islamic State’s Iraq stronghold and destroying three...
Baghdad: Iraqi forces captured a neighbourhood in east Mosul yesterday, pushing deeper to the heart of Islamic State’s Iraq stronghold and destroying three...
Aleppo: The Syrian army pressed an offensive in Aleppo yesterday with ground fighting and air strikes in an operation to retake all of...
Ankara: Turkey's ruling party will submit a bill to parliament today expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers just months after the July failed...
CAIRO: A bombing on a main Cairo road leading to the Giza pyramids killed six police and wounded another three on Friday, the...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi handpicked a trusted bureaucrat, little known outside India’s financial circles, to spearhead a radical move to abolish...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to state the threshold limit of cash that each account holder can withdraw...
MADRID: Europe’s political mainstream needs to tone down its austerity drive and focus more on growth if it wants to fight off the...
The Hague: Former Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was "not a monster" and should be acquitted of genocide and war crimes, his defence...
Oslo: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday said the Nobel Peace Prize was a "gift from heaven" and gave a "tremendous push"...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s stern rebuke to Myanmar for a military-led crackdown on Muslim Rohingyas was a rarity among Southeast...
Prague: Czech lawmakers voted Friday to ban smoking in cafes and restaurants starting next May, following in the footsteps of much of Europe,...
NEW DELHI: India’s federal police arrested the former head of the air force on Friday in an investigation into allegations of bribery in...
NAIROBI: Kenyan police have detained a British journalist working for The Times and are holding him at the country’s main airport without charge,...
SARAJEVO: The European Union’s senior official for new memberships on Friday expressed concern about rising nationalist rhetoric and divisions in the Balkans as...
DAKAR: Algerian authorities have deported hundreds of West African migrants to Niger this week, trucking them thousands of miles across the desert in...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong's unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying, who has been vilified by critics as a puppet of Beijing, said Friday he would...
Indonesia's president has vowed to rebuild areas devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless. Joko Widodo...
BUCHAREST: When Romania’s leftist government collapsed a year ago amid outrage over a deadly nightclub fire, many people spied an opportunity for sweeping...
