Flames rip through the Address Downtown hotel after it was hit by a massive fire, near the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in...
Flames rip through the Address Downtown hotel after it was hit by a massive fire, near the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in...
Tourists pull their luggage during a snowfall in the Hagia Sofia district in Istanbul on December 31, 2015. (AFP / Yasin Akgul) Istanbul:...
Smoke rises following explosions in Syria near the border with the Israeli occupied Golan Heights September 23, 2014. REUTERS By Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT:...
Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan holds her Hebrew-language novel titled "Gader Haya" (known in English as "Borderlife") on December 31, 2015 as she poses...
A Syrian boy rests after receiving treatment at a make-shift hospital, following a reported airstrike by Syrian government forces on the rebel-held town...
DUBAI: A Bahraini man was sentenced to death on Thursday for a bomb attack last year that killed a policemen and a civilian...
Slavery is deeply entrenched in Mauritania, where Berber Arab Moors enslaved local black populations centuries ago. AFP Nouakchott: A Mauritanian court has remanded...
Istanbul: Turkish security forces killed 3,100 Kurdish militants in 2015, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) said Thursday, vowing no let-up in a relentless...
ISTANBUL: Hundreds of flights in and out of Turkey were cancelled for Thursday and Friday at Istanbul's two airports after the city was...
File picture of a rocket being fired from an Iranian military boat during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait...
Senior Yemeni militia leader Ahmed al-Idrisi (Right) ADEN: Unknown gunmen shot and killed a senior Yemeni militia leader and four people travelling in...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are preparing for the possibility of a substantial attack on the Israel-Syria border, following the recent attacks in...
Tehran: An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale shook Ravar city in the southern Iran province of Kerman early Thursday. Iran's Seismological...
Munir al-Bitar (L), Ahmad al-Asrawi (R) Damascus: Syrian authorities have released two prominent members of the domestic opposition who were arrested on Wednesday...
CAIRO: A Facebook-sponsored service that offers limited free Internet access was suspended in Egypt on Wednesday after a permit required from the government...
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is preparing new sanctions on international companies and individuals over Iran’s ballistic missile program, sources familiar with the situation...
Beirut: At least nine people were killed and more than 25 injured when explosions struck three restaurants in the northeastern Syrian city of...
Ibrahim al-Jaafari BAGHDAD: Iraq’s foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it...
