Germany to ease deportation rules after Cologne assaults
The German government wants to ease the rules for deporting foreign criminals in the wake of the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, two...
Security concerns send Turkish foreign visitor arrivals tumbling
The number of foreign visitors coming to Turkey tumbled 10 percent in February, the biggest drop in a decade, data showed on Tuesday, as...
Syrian regime planes bomb Kurdish-held city
Syrian government warplanes bombed Kurdish-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, the...
Iran says Gulf states' moves against Hezbollah will harm Lebanon
Iran warned Thursday that its Gulf Arab rivals were jeopardising Lebanon's stability by blacklisting the leading force behind its government, Hezbollah, as a terror...
An elephant returns to Somalia for first time in 20 years
An elephant marched hundreds of kilometres and briefly crossed into Somalia this month marking the first time the animal has been seen in the...
49,000 children dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram
The U.N. children's agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria's Islamic extremist uprising...
Mina now a ghost city, awaits next year's pilgrims
As curtains came down on this year's Haj pilgrimage, more than 160,000 tents in Mina have been dismantled. These tents housed close to two...
No more "free" Saudi money for Egypt, says Saudi businessman
Saudi Arabia's financial support for strategic ally Egypt will no longer involve "free money" and will increasingly take the form of loans that provide...
Israeli police kill Palestinian knife attacker
GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: videos of attack from Twitter. The views and opinions of these Twitter accounts are not necessarily the views of The Saudi.
https://twitter.com/Pachachef/status/653498526501072896
https://twitter.com/Pxlestine/status/653474491020914688?lang=en
Israeli police shot dead...
Third PM-designate this year in Iraq
Mustafa Kadhemi was nominated by the Iraqi president on Thursday as the country's third prime minister-designate this year, moments after predecessor Adnan Zurfi ended...
