Libyan forces under Khalifa Haftar battled their way to the south of Tripoli on Friday, prompting the UN Security Council and the G7 to

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar were pushed back from a key checkpoint less than 30 kilometres from Tripoli, checking their lightning advance on the capital, a security source said yesterday.

Heavy bombardment by the Syrian army of the jihadist-controlled Idlib region has killed 22 civilians, a monitor said yesterday, the latest violence which threatens a seven-month-old truce.

Forces led by a controversial Libyan military chief yesterday advanced towards Tripoli as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of the growing risk of violence.

Afghan security forces have arrested six alleged members of the Islamic State militant group and accused them of using hundreds of fake accounts on Facebook Inc and other social media to find recruits, authorities said yesterday.

The US House of Representatives approved a resolution yesterday to end US support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, rebuffing President Donald Trump's policy toward the kingdom.

The children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received multimillion-dollar homes and are being paid thousands of

Taliban fighters on Saturday attacked a convoy carrying Afghanistan's vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum, in an assault that left the

The top three contenders in Ukraine's presidential elections cast their vote yesterday in a first round which a comedian - who happens to

Afghanistan's vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, escapes unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.

Israeli fire kills a Palestinian man near the Gaza border, Palestinian Health officials say, as Israel's forces mass at the frontier ahead of a rally to mark the first anniversary of a surge of Gaza border protests.

Saudi Arabia yesterday released three out of 11 women detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on activists, a close relative and London-based rights group ALQST said.

A military helicopter has crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan, killing all 13 servicemen on board, the defence ministry said yesterday.

Palestinian militants fired three rockets at Israel overnight prompting retaliatory fire from Israel, with the exchanges threatening a Hamas-declared truce.

Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

Saudi Arabia rejected US President Donald Trump's recognition Monday of Syria's Golan Heights as Israeli territory condemning it as a

The death toll of floods that have swept across most Iranian provinces has risen to 18 with more than 70 injured, the country's

Syria's Kurds yesterday called for an international court to be set up in the country to try suspected Islamic State group jihadists following the announced fall of their "caliphate".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to the United States yesterday and the military dispatched reinforcements to the Gaza border after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people.

Ten children, part of the same extended family, were killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan, along with three adult civilians, the United Nations said yesterday.