Kurdish ex-mayor sentenced for nine years on ‘terror’ links in Turkey
The ex-mayor of a major Kurdish city was sentenced on Monday to more than nine years in prison after convicting him of "membership in...
OPEC December oil output slips, still near record
OPEC oil output fell in December, a Reuters survey found on Tuesday, led by lower supply from Iraq following a record-breaking month in November...
180 small clinics serving pilgrims in the holy sites
Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih has called upon the ministry’s field medicine employees in Muaisem, near Mina, to extend the best possible services to the...
Turkey's blocking of YouTube violated freedom of expression: Europe court
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey had violated conventions on freedom of expression when it banned YouTube for more...
'We are not natural-born enemies of Iran,' Saudi UN envoy says
Saudi Arabia said on Monday it would restore ties with Iran when Tehran stopped meddling in the affairs of other countries and pledged that...
Hamburg Islamist knife attacker gets life in prison
A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday...
Yemeni party names new leader after Saleh killed
The party of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh named a new leader on Sunday after he was killed last month by the Iran-aligned...
Isreali fire wounded at least three Syrian soldiers near Golan
The official SANA agency reported on Thursday that at least three Syrian soldiers were wounded by Israeli helicopter fire near the annexed Golan Heights...
Jawazat services fast ‘becoming paperless’
The Passports Department (Jawazat) has electronically issued as many as 13,930,574 single exit-reentry visas sparing applicants the trouble of going personally to Jawazat offices...
Closed migrant camps in Greece starting from March
Greece will begin setting up closed camps for asylum seekers on its Aegean islands in March in response to growing tensions over the migrants'...
