Syria's al-Moualem to head government delegation at peace talks
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem will head a government delegation at peace talks with the country's opposition later this week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...
US-led coalition drops 50 tons of ammunition to anti-Isil Syrian rebels
U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running...
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...
Turkey's Erdogan says no one has right to "slander" over ISIS oil claims
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday no one had the right to "slander" Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Islamic State,...
200 Al-Shabab fighters pledge allegiance to ISIS
Kenya's police chief says about 200 Islamic extremist fighters have split from Somalia's al-Shabab rebels, who are allied to al-Qaida, and have instead pledged...
Egypt court orders suspension of Uber, Careem licences
An Egyptian court ordered on Tuesday the suspension of licences for ride-hailing companies Uber and Careem after taxi drivers filed a lawsuit seeking to...
Nadiya Jamir Hussain wins Great British Bake Off 2015 contest
Nadiya Jamir Hussain has been crowned 2015 champion of The Great British Bake Off .
It was a hard fought battle between herself, Ian Cumming...
ISIS claims responsibility for bombing in Egypt's Sinai
Islamic State's Egyptian branch claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed four people in a hotel in North Sinai capital al-Arish on Tuesday where...
Islamic State advances on Aleppo in Syria fighting
Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite...
Three killed, 41 wounded in Taliban truck bomb in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents set off a truck bomb on Tuesday in an attack on Afghan army commandos, killing three people...
