Iraq preparing to push ISIS away from oil region
Kurdish Peshmerga forces, an Iran-backed Shi'ite militia and Iraq's army will launch an offensive soon to push Islamic State fighters away from the northern...
'Bachelor ban': Qatar considers family-only mall days
Qatar's only directly elected body is to vote on introducing family-only days at major shopping malls in a move dubbed a "bachelor ban" that...
Controversial Israel, Germany submarine deal advances after graft probe delay
Jerusalem, Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)
Germany has resumed negotiations towards selling Israel three submarines after a three-month pause in talks following concern in Berlin over...
Yemeni party urges probe into Saleh’s crimes
Yemen’s General People’s Congress Party has called for ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his supporters to be “held accountable for crimes against the...
Kuwait arrests U.K.-based national for sarcastic online postings
Kuwait's Interior Ministry has arrested a Kuwaiti man who had lived in Britain and charged him with publishing "offensive videos and sarcastic comments" about...
3 Saudi soldiers killed by Yemen Rebels in border attacks
Attacks by Yemeni rebels have killed three Saudi soldiers and wounded another three along the border, the Saudi military said. The official Saudi Press...
ISIS releases 270 of 400 civilians abducted in east Syria
The ISIS group late Tuesday released 270 of more than 400 civilians it had abducted during its assault on the eastern Syrian city of...
Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine in West Bank
Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the West Bank on Friday as the Islamist group Hamas called for a day of rage...
Palestine to host Saudis in World Cup qualifier
Fifa says the Palestinian national football team will host a postponed World Cup qualifying match against Saudi Arabia on home territory on November 5.
The...
Egypt's pound flops on black market amid exchange crackdown
Egypt's currency is plunging to new lows on the black market, with traders selling it from between 11 and 11.15 Egyptian pounds to the...
