A view of the colonnade in the historical city of Palmyra, Syria. Damascus: A blast rocked the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra on...
A view of the colonnade in the historical city of Palmyra, Syria. Damascus: A blast rocked the ancient ruins in Syria’s Palmyra on...
Pro-government Libyan forces aim their weapons during clashes in the streets with the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries Dec. 28, 2014. (Reuters) TRIPOLI:...
RIYADH: Saudi authorities said Monday that three Canadians, one Pakistani and a Nigerian woman were among 10 people killed in a fire at...
M M Ramachandran By Stanley Carvalho and Tom Arnold ABU DHABI/DUBAI: A Dubai-based gold and jewellery retailer has defaulted on loans worth about...
RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Health said in its weekly statement, it recorded 34 positive confirmed cases of respiratory Middle East syndrome virus...
Tear gas is fired during clashes between Israeli border police and Palestinian demonstrators at a protest near the West Bank city of Biet...
A protestor flashes a sign with Arabic written in Latin saying “your smell has reached Paris” during a demonstration near the Eiffel Tower...
A Yemeni receives food aid from a local relief group in Sana’a, yesterday. According to the World Food Programme, an estimated 12.9 million...
CAIRO: Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election in two phases starting Oct. 18-19, the election commission said on Sunday, the final step...
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is to travel to China, despite being wanted by the International Criminal Court (AFP ) KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar...
KHOME: Another boat carrying migrants has sunk off Libya and the bodies of at least seven people have been washed up, Libya's Red...
Saudi women wait for their drivers outside a shopping mall in Riyadh on September 26, 2011 a day after King Abdullah granted women...
DUBAI: A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced two people to 10 years each in jail on charges of spying for the United...
Under Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic legal code, drug trafficking, murder, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death. Saudi authorities executed...
People gather near a truck hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's northwestern province of Amran, Yemen, August 29, 2015. Warplanes from...
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: A fire at an oil workers' residential compound in Saudi Arabia on Sunday killed two people and injured 105 others...
Supporters of the Moroccan party “Ennahj dimocrati” (Democratic Way) distribute leaflets calling for the boycott of the election during the municipal and regional...
Juba: South Sudan’s army and rebels accused each other of responsibility for fresh fighting yesterday in the north-east despite a peace agreement to...