Glimmer of hope as Syria war enters sixth year
Syria's war enters its sixth year next week with a glimmer of hope that a landmark ceasefire and a push for peace could help...
Philippines’ Duterte orders lifting of labour deployment ban to Kuwait
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered on Wednesday the "total" lifting of a ban on Filipinos working in Kuwait after the two countries agreed on...
Deputy Crown Prince to host 1,000 pilgrims from families of coalition forces
Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense, has issued directives to host 1,000 family members of the troops...
Michel Platini will not stand in Fifa presidential election
Suspended Uefa president Michel Platini says he will not stand in the Fifa presidential election next month.
Platini, along with Fifa president Sepp Blatter, has...
Netanyahu vows crackdown on ‘Arab crime’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Saturday the murder of two people in Tel Aviv by a shooter suspected of being an Arab Israeli,...
Lebanon PM holds emergency meeting as nation mourns bomb victims
Lebanon's prime minister held an emergency meeting with ministers and military chiefs on Friday as his country mourned 43 people killed in a double...
Yemen shells wound 2 in Saudi border zone
Shelling from Yemen has wounded two people in southern Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's civil defence agency said late Thursday, in a rare breach of...
Cameroon army kills 100 Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages
Cameroon troops killed around 100 Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria, freed almost 900 hostages and seized Islamic State (IS) flags last week, the...
30 teachers escape unhurt as bus catches fire
Thirty teachers had a miraculous escape after their bus caught fire in eastern Saudi Arabia.
The teachers were going from Ihsa to Dammam in Eastern Province...
Syrian rebel fighters are in Libya, Erdogan confirms
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed for the first time on Friday that Syrian fighters are in Libya alongside training teams dispatched by Ankara.
"Turkey...
