Sisi tells interior minister to crack down on police abuses
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the interior minister on Friday to hold any policeman who attacks citizens to account and to submit proposals...
2 million Muslims begin Hajj pilgrimage
Pilgrims from around the world have begun moving from the tent city of Mina to the holy site of Kaaba in Saudi Arabia for...
Saudi-led coalition strikes kill at least 50 in Yemen
Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed 50 people in Yemen when they hit a Houthi-held security compound in the north and a house...
Saudi facing 'long' Yemen war after talks fail
Six months after Saudi Arabia said its war in Yemen was winding down, air strikes are again pounding rebels and rockets flying across the...
Russia parades Syrian ‘witnesses’ to disprove gas attack
Russian diplomats brought alleged "witnesses" from Syria, including an 11-year-old child, to the headquarters of the global chemical weapons watchdog in the Netherlands to...
French FM faces criticism on Iran visit
France's foreign minister traveled to Tehran on Monday promising tough talk on Iran's ballistic missile program but was met with stiff resistance from...
Israeli who burned Palestinian alive ruled 'sane'
A psychiatrist has ruled that an Israeli found to have led the burning alive of a Palestinian teenager in 2014 was responsible for his...
Israel legalises hundreds of West Bank settler homes
Israel has retroactively legalised some 800 homes in four settlements in the occupied West Bank, the interior ministry said.
They included 377 homes in the...
Saudi public fund to double assets by 2020
Riyadh, Oct 25, 2017 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, smarting from a three-year oil slump, said Wednesday that it aims to nearly double the assets...
Turkey says hopes to solve issues over Manbij via dialogue with U.S.
Turkey hopes that a planned operation into Syria's Manbij will not be necessary and that it can instead resolve differences over the town through...
