By Babak Dehghanpisheh BAGHDAD: Iraq has started bombing Islamic State with help from a new intelligence centre that has staff from Russia, Iran...
By Babak Dehghanpisheh BAGHDAD: Iraq has started bombing Islamic State with help from a new intelligence centre that has staff from Russia, Iran...
By Axel Bugge and Sergio Goncalves LISBON: Portugal's Socialists are better placed to form a stable government than the centre-right, after two far-left...
By Tarek Amara TUNIS: Tunisia is under pressure to speed up economic reforms, especially after two deadly attacks this year on its tourism...
By Asad Hashim PESHAWAR: Aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding...
By Orhan Coskun ANKARA: Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate Kurdish territorial gains by Kurdish militia close...
By Timothy Mclaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON: Myanmar's election commission and the country's biggest political parties on Tuesday discussed postponing a historic...
By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS: A Greek TV commercial shows two fishmongers in a market touting their wares. "I've got sea bream," one shouts....
MULTAN: Pakistan on Tuesday hanged at least eight men for murder, officials said, bringing the total number of people executed since it controversially...
MUMBAI: A long-awaited sequel to "Shantaram" went on sale on Tuesday, 12 years after the novel about an escaped Australian convict in India...
VATICAN CITY: The leak of a private letter from rebellious cardinals to Pope Francis has revived a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere at the Vatican, with...
By Kieran Guilbert DAKAR: Violence against aid groups and general insecurity have plunged the Timbuktu region in northern Mali into a hunger crisis,...
Fujairah port By Rania El Gamal DUBAI: Iran has boosted exports of fuel oil through U.S.-ally the United Arab Emirates and also almost...
By Pantho Rahaman GAMBURA, Bangladesh: S uruj Miah walks through his village carrying two large pots of water, one in his hand and...
By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS: Some 170,000 irregular migrants entered the European Union in September, the bloc's border agency Frontex said on Tuesday, taking...
WEST BANK: Israeli forces late Monday and early Tuesday detained 11 Palestinians, including four minors, from across the West Bank, said security and...
OSLO: Norway may have to spend an extra 40 to 50 billion crowns ($4.9 billion-$6.2 billion) over the next five years to cope...
Vendors and buyers gather in Cairo's open air Ataba market By Lin Noueihed and Ali Abdelaty MINYA, Egypt: Holding court behind a battered...
People, holding up Syrian flags, gather near the Russian embassy in Damascus. DAMASCUS: Two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on...
