ISIS claims killing Egyptian police in Cairo raid
An Egyptian affiliate of ISIS group claimed Friday the killing of six people, including three policemen, in a bomb blast during a Cairo apartment raid.
Thursday's...
Aid airdrops to Syria's besieged are 'too dangerous'
As images and reports of starvation in besieged Syrian communities drew an international outcry and two rare aid convoys this month, an urgent question...
At least 19 killed in Somalia restaurant attack
Somalia's Al Shebab militants killed around 20 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police...
World Islamic body backs Saudi in Iran spat
The world's largest Muslim body backed Saudi Arabia in its weeks-long diplomatic spat with Iran in a statement issued on Thursday night, accusing Tehran...
Splinter Taliban group threatens more school attacks
The head of a breakaway Taliban faction behind this week's attack at a northwestern Pakistani university that killed 21 people, most of them students,...
French diplomat rules out Russia-backed delegation at Syria talks
A senior diplomat from France, which has been helping moderate Syrian opposition groups prepare for talks with the Syrian government, insisted on Thursday that...
Al Jazeera says its crew kidnapped in Yemeni city of Taiz
The Doha-based Al Jazeera news channel said on Thursday three of its journalists had been kidnapped in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz and...
$30 oil is 'irrational' and a rebound is 'inevitable,' according to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia thinks oil prices at $30 per barrel are “irrational.”
According to a report in The Financial Times, Khalid al-Falih, chairman of the state-owned...
No sign of Saudi rescuing oil market
Low oil prices have pushed top exporter Saudi Arabia to hasten difficult economic reforms and cut spending on popular benefits, but it has few...
Tunisian police clash with protestors over lack of job opportunities
Tunisian police firing tear gas clashed with hundreds of protesters who tried to storm local government buildings in several towns on Thursday in the...
