WASHINGTON: "Bittersweet" was the word of the night, the one used most often to describe President Barack Obama's final state dinner. "We saved...
WASHINGTON: "Bittersweet" was the word of the night, the one used most often to describe President Barack Obama's final state dinner. "We saved...
Las Vegas: President Barack Obama on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump's claim that the 2016 presidential race is rigged, telling the Republican nominee...
Jakarta: The Indonesian capital Jakarta, one of the world's most overcrowded and polluted megacities, has launched a new bid to rid its streets...
ABUJA/DAKAR: The 21 Nigerian schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram militants last week after two-and-a-half years' captivity urgently need support to reintegrate into their...
Washington: Known for her lacy white collars and fastidious vocabulary, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seems like a figure from a bygone era in...
Brussels: Iraq is helping defend the world against the Islamic State group through its campaign to retake the city of Mosul, Foreign Minister...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday said although it would be "a difficult fight," he was confident that Iraqi forces leading the...
Paris: The UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution condemning Israel's actions at a flashpoint holy site in east Jerusalem that...
Moscow: Moscow announced Tuesday that Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo ahead of a brief truce, a move the Kremlin...
BERLIN: German police deployed on Tuesday in the centre of the western town of Dueren after a shooting incident was reported at a...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria, Mali and Somalia were Tuesday listed as “epicenters” of violent extremism in Africa by the UN Development Program (UNDP), the...
DUBAI: A Bahraini court has overturned a 9-year prison term imposed on the country’s most prominent opposition leader, in a ruling that could...
ATHENS, Greece: Ten thousand refugees stranded in Greece are ready to be relocated, European Parliament Vice President Dimitris Papadimoulis, who is also a...
DUBAI/WASHINGTON: An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-American businessman and his elderly father to 10 years in prison on charges of cooperating with...
AMMAN: The Syrian army on Tuesday accused the U.S.-led coalition of planning to allow Islamic State militants to flee Iraq's city of Mosul...
Qayyarah, Iraq: Iraqi forces were making gains as tens of thousands of fighters advanced on Mosul Tuesday in an unprecedented offensive to retake...
BAYIRBUCAK, Syria: A hospital in Syria's northwestern Latakia province, known for its large Turkmen population, has been forced to operate underground owing to...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi President Fuad Masum has called for protecting civilians amid a major offensive to recapture the northern city of Mosul from the...
