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,...
Iraqi Kurdistan parliament delays presidential elections by eight months
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Elections for the presidency and parliament of Iraq’s Kurdistan region set for Nov. 1 have been delayed by eight months, the...
Interior Ministry inks deal to develop border guard sector
Recently, the Interior Ministry signed an agreement with the German Interior Ministry to collaboratively develop the Kingdom’s Border Guard system, as well as provide...
Malaysia sanctioned for crowd trouble at World Cup qualifier
Malaysia have been issued with a formal warning and a raft of other sanctions from soccer's world governing body FIFA after their World Cup...
Emirati Soldier & Aid Worker killed in Yemen
ADEN, Oct 17 (Reuters) - A soldier and an aid worker from the United Arab Emirates have been killed in Yemen where their country...
Egypt police arrest senior Muslim Brotherhood leader
Egypt's interior ministry says authorities have arrested a senior leader and financier of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the latest in the country's security crackdown...
U.S. steps up diplomacy, rebel support to end Syrian 'hell': Kerry
The United States is intensifying its diplomacy to end the "hell" of Syria’s civil war even as it increases support for moderate rebels fighting...
Egyptian jamming of Sinai insurgents disrupts phones in Israel, Gaza
Israel and Egypt were working to halt disruptions to mobile phone service after Egyptian jamming against Sinai insurgents caused outages in neighbouring Israel and...
Syrian Observatory says war has killed more than half a million
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said on Monday about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since...
Lira slumps after Turkey’s Erdogan says interest rates ‘evil’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday declared that interest rates were the "mother and father of all evil", a controversial comment that prompted a...
