Asia & Americas

The European Union's anti-fraud body is investigating Syria aid projects, officials said, after a similar US probe exposed bribery and fraud in some of its humanitarian assistance in the...

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its campaign of airstrikes, a Russian newspaper reported today, as Moscow defied global censure over an escalation that Western...

Moments before her wedding was due to start the zip on Jo Du's dress broke. It was a Sunday and Du didn't know where to find a tailor so...

US lawmakers expressed doubts yesterday about legislation they forced on President Barack Obama, saying the new law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia could be narrowed to ease concerns about...

United States President Barack Obama will extend the US air campaign in Libya against Daesh militants for a third consecutive month. Initially supposed to last a few weeks, AFRICOM,...

Airstrikes by the international coalition against Daesh have killed 18 of the militant organisation's commanders over the past 30 days, 13 of them in Mosul, a US military spokesman...

The US warns that talks with Russia over Syria are near breaking point. John Kerry, US Secretary of State told reporters on Thursday that Moscow's continued support for the...

A new demand by the UN has been made to end the on-going bombardment of Aleppo by pro-Syrian regime forces. Ambassador Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, The UN's Deputy Special Envoy...

Two senior members of Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch were killed in a suspected US drone strike in the central province of Bayda, local officials told Reuters today. The strike, which...

Thirteen Daesh leaders have been killed by the US-led coalition in the past month in Iraq and Syria, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman John Dorrian told reporters today. "By taking...

The Syrian government today criticised the US-led coalition for destroying two bridges on the Euphrates river this week in areas held by Daesh hold in the east of the...

The Obama administration is contemplating a wide range of military responses in Syria following the high-profile diplomatic failure to bring about a ceasefire. According to Reuters, new discussions were...

A number of American human rights organisations have urged President Barack Obama to investigate the killing of a US citizen at the hands of Israeli occupation forces, warning that...

Dunkin' Donuts Egypt released a picture of a doughnut covered in chocolate and one covered in sugar frosting with the following caption: "Blackness equals a half beauty. Whiteness equals...

Russia is outraged by the allegedly threatening tone of the latest US statement on Russia's involvement in Syria, viewing it as tantamount to supporting terrorism, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...

Saudi Arabia and its allies are warning that U.S. legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks will have negative repercussions. The kingdom maintains an arsenal...

Russia, and/or its interests, could be at risk from extremist attacks as a result of its support for the Syrian regime, the US State Department has warned. John Kirby,...

At least 22 soldiers were killed in an alleged US airstrike on Somali army base Wednesday according to a local minister. The strike hit Galmudug army base in Jehdin...

The US will send 615 new troops to Iraq to assist local forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Daesh, US and Iraqi officials revealed today. The new...

The White House today slammed the Senate's nearly unanimous vote to reject President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the September 11 2001 attacks...

Students at one of Latin America's top-ranked universities have voted to back the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanction, the Electronic Intifada reported yesterday. The decision at the...

The US Senate today overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama's veto of legislation allowing relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia's government. The house...

The offending munition landed on Qayyara Air Base, which is being used as a staging area for the expected Mosul operation later this year

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) strongly condemned on Tuesday Arab participation in a Zionist conference held in New York about the threat posed by Iran, Arab48.com has...

Around 100 Bangladeshi workers hired by a Kuwaiti company to guard supermarkets and various stores in the country staged a sit-in protest yesterday at the Bangladesh Embassy. The company...

The regime forces include Syrian army units as well as fighters from Iran and Iraq as well as Lebanon.

Gulf states may supply opposition groups in Syria with anti-aircraft missiles to defend themselves against Syrian and Russian warplanes, Reuters reported. An official, who was speaking on the condition...

In the most watched presidential debate in US history since Jimmy Carter opposed Ronald Reagan in the eighties, Donald Trump told Hillary Clinton that she was responsible for the...

A Spokesman for the US military has said that they expect that their forces will be exposed to chemical weapons as in the run up to a possible attack...

Oil jumped as much as four per cent today as the world's largest producers gathered in Algeria to discuss ways to support prices, with nervous trade driving volatility to...

Israel should exploit the US elections and annex parts of the occupied West Bank and impose its full sovereignty over them, Education Minister Naftali Bennett urged today. Speaking on...

Greek authorities sent 70 illegal immigrants from the island of Lesbos to Turkey under an agreement between Turkey and the European Union, Greek officials revealed today. The Anadolu Agency...