Fighting in Sudan's capital entered a second week Saturday as crackling gunfire shattered a temporary truce, the latest battles between forces of rival generals that...
Ukraine marked 100 days since Russia's invasion on Friday with fighting raging across the east of the country, where Moscow's forces are tightening their grip...
Afghan security forces battled militants in Kabul's old quarter on Tuesday, with military helicopters firing above a mosque to quell an assault that was launched with a rocket barrage against the capital.
The heartbreaking news of serious illness from the heart-throbbing superstar, Irrfan Khan, sent shockwaves to his fans and followers across the world.
Irfan has been...
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Sunday said the nation was encountering rueful consequences of fighting the war of the United States,...
DUBAI: Officials in Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party (GPC) confirmed to Reuters that the former Yemeni president and party leader has been...
Japanese video game developer Akira, known for games such as Street Fighter, has announced that the new project previously known as ‘Mysterious Fighting Game’...
DEIR EZZOR: A Russian general was killed while battling Islamic State group militants near the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Moscow's defence ministry...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz returned home on Sunday after a month-long holiday in Morocco, and ordered a month's extra pay for Saudi military and security personnel actively involved in military operations in Yemen, state news agency SPA said.
AMMAN: A cessation of hostilities agreement brokered by Russia and the United States brought a measure of relief to the battered Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday but President Bashar al-Assad said he still sought a total, crushing victory over rebel forces.
MAFRAQ: Morning creeps up on the Zaatari refugee camp, an ever-increasing settlement of Syrians who have fled the war across the border. Omaima Hoshan meets up with a group of young girls; some accompanied by their parents and then leads them to a makeshift workshop in the camp. The workshop organized is to help discourage the young girls from the custom of child marriage.
ALEPO: Government air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday as rockets fired by insurgents pounded neighborhoods under state control, part of escalating violence in northern Syria that has undermined a truce agreement.
BEIRUT: Fighting mostly stopped across western and northern Syria on Saturday and Russia halted its air raids, under a cessation of hostilities which the United Nations called the best hope for peace since civil war began five years ago.
UNITED NATIONS: Civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan rose to record levels for the seventh year in row in 2015, as violence spread across the country in the wake of the withdrawal of most international troops, the United Nations reported on Sunday.
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Tuesday announced that it is pulling together a council of outside experts and organizations to battle abusive behavior at the one-to-many messaging service.