World / Middle East

Saudi Prince Alwaleed calls Trump a disgrace, should quit presidential race 12 Dec 2015 - 11:00 am

File photo of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in London. Reuters Dubai: Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called Donald Trump a disgrace...

Hannibal Gaddafi handed over to Lebanese security forces 12 Dec 2015 - 10:21 am

File photo of Hannibal Gaddafi. EPA Beirut: The Lebanese Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch received last night Hannibal Gaddafi after his captors left...

GCC countries stress importance of social development 12 Dec 2015 - 09:55 am

File photo of a United Nations General Assembly meeting for representation only New York: The Gulf Cooperation Council underlined the importance of the...

Voting starts in first Saudi poll open to women 12 Dec 2015 - 09:16 am

Riyadh: Voting began on Saturday in Saudi Arabia's first elections open to female voters and candidates, a tentative step towards easing restrictions on...

Turkey lifts, then reimposes curfew in battered Kurdish city 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Diyarbakir, Turkey: The Turkish authorities on Friday lifted a nine-day curfew in a key district in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir after heavy...

Top Iraq Shiite cleric criticises Turkish deployment 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Baghdad: Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday criticised the deployment of Turkish troops and tanks to...

UK girls as young as 12 'made available for' older men, court hears 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

London: The British trial of five men and two women accused of sexually exploiting a group of young girls over a period of...

Hannibal Kadhafi, son of late Libyan dictator Kadhafi 'kidnapped in Lebanon' 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

Beirut: Hannibal Kadhafi, the high-living businessman son of the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, was kidnapped in Lebanon on Friday, a security source...

Turkey's Erdogan says Iraqi appeal to Security Council 'not honest' 12 Dec 2015 - 12:00 am

DOHA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that a complaint lodged by Iraq's government to the U.N. Security Council about the presence...

Kerry meets Putin next week on Syria peace plan 11 Dec 2015 - 06:28 pm

File photo Paris: US Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Moscow on Tuesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the...

Three Palestinians killed in West Bank, Gaza 11 Dec 2015 - 05:59 pm

Evacuating the wounded on the Gaza border Halhul, Palestine: Three Palestinians were killed Friday in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza...

Dubai Police wants YouTube prankster over car stunt 11 Dec 2015 - 05:38 pm

A social media prank by a Russian comedian has prompted Dubai Police to investigate because of the dangerous stunts it features, reports The...

Tunisian Nobel laureates call for fight against terrorism, Palestine solution 11 Dec 2015 - 02:22 am

From left: Houcine Abassi, Mohamed Fadhel Mahfoudh, Abdessattar Ben Moussa and Wided Bouchamaoui pose with the Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony in...

First Saudi vote campaign for women enters final day 10 Dec 2015 - 03:34 pm

Saudi woman Fawzia al-Harbi, a candidate for local municipal council elections, shows her candidate biography at a shopping mall in Riyadh. (file photo) ...

Syria Kurd-Arab coalition creates political wing 10 Dec 2015 - 02:33 pm

Saleh Al-Nebwani (C) and Ilham Ahmad (L), members of the Democratic Council for Syria, during a meeting hosted by Syrian Kurdish factions in...

Seven Kurdish militants, one policeman killed in southeast Turkey 10 Dec 2015 - 12:22 pm

Turkish riot police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against the curfew in the southeastern city of Turkey. Reuters ANKARA:...

Syrian fighters arrive in Idlib after Homs ceasefire deal: Monitoring group 10 Dec 2015 - 11:38 am

Buses leave district of Waer during a truce between the government and rebels, in Homs, Syria December 9, 2015. BEIRUT: Buses carrying Syrian...

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Tunisia's guardians of democracy 10 Dec 2015 - 08:39 am

Members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, winner of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, (L-R) Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union...