Iran Guards strike tanker in Hormuz
14 October 2026
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Analysis / Remittance and fuel: Bangladesh's double exposure to the Gulf crisis
13 October 2026
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Visa clock ticks for KSA-bound workers
12 October 2026
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2 Bangladeshis killed in Riyadh airport strike
12 October 2026
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Riyadh airport hit by fresh Houthi strike
12 October 2026
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Iran executes man for killing police officer
12 October 2026
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Fresh attack at Riyadh airport, says Saudi coalition
11 October 2026
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Flights cancelled as blast rocks Riyadh airport
11 October 2026
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Israeli strikes kill 5 more in Gaza
11 October 2026
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in focus / Oil surges, stocks sink as US reportedly eyes fresh Iran strikes
9 October 2026
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Libya’s Haftar orders troops to fight harder
Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government
6 May 2019
Taliban attack Afghan police headquarter
At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a police
5 May 2019
Air strikes kill 9 in Syria’s Idlib
At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria’s government and its ally Russia in the northwest
5 May 2019
Erdogan condemns ‘Israeli terrorism, atrocities in Gaza’
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey’s state news
5 May 2019
Ramadan in Saudi Arabia begins tomorrow
Saudi Arabian will start fasting on the month of Ramadan from Monday as the country’s moon observers said the crescent of Ramadan was not sighted Saturday, the Arab News reports.
5 May 2019
Gaza ceasefire falters again
Gaza militants yesterday fired a barrage of dozens of rockets at Israel, which responded with strikes that killed a Palestinian, officials said, as a fragile ceasefire again faltered.
4 May 2019
Ousted Bashir to be grilled
Sudan’s prosecutor general has ordered the questioning of ousted president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and “financing terrorism”, the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday.
3 May 2019
Bangladeshis killed in Saudi crash identified
Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh identifies the 10 Bangladeshi workers who were killed in a road crash last Thursday. They were killed when a minibus, carrying them to Madina from Dammam, fell in a ditch due to a burst tyre in a place named Shaqra.
3 May 2019
Coalition hits Yemen rebel drone site
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen raided a drone facility used by Huthi rebels at an airbase in the capital Sanaa, a spokesman
2 May 2019
US, Taliban peace summit wraps up
Afghan officials yesterday called for a ceasefire as a huge peace summit wound down in Kabul after thousands of delegates spent days discussing possible conditions for a peace deal with the Taliban.
2 May 2019
Fighting in Syria displaces 140,000
Fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the UN said on Wednesday, as the regime and its ally Russia have stepped up their bombardment.
2 May 2019
Iran threatens to shut Hormuz Strait
Iran’s top general yesterday warned Tehran could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route if it faces more “hostility”, news agency ISNA said, as the US tightens up sanctions.
28 April 2019
Jihadists kill 22 pro-regime Syria fighters
Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 22 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early yesterday, a war monitor said.
27 April 2019
Saudi Arabia executed convicts after forced confessions: CNN
Long before Saudi Arabia announced it had carried out one of the largest mass executions in its history earlier this week, some of the men condemned to death said they were innocent and their confessions had been written by the same people who had tortured them, a media report said yesterday.
26 April 2019
Two children killed in Yemen fighting
Two children were killed yesterday as fighting resumed between pro-government militias in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taez, local
25 April 2019
Iran denounces US talks with Taliban
Iran on Wednesday criticised US talks with the Taliban on ending the Afghanistan war, saying Washington was elevating the role of the militants.
25 April 2019
KSA executes 37
At least 33 of the 37 Saudis executed by the kingdom in a single day belonged to the Sunni-dominated country’s Shia minority, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
24 April 2019
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.
24 April 2019
Iran, Pak to set up joint reaction force
Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint border “reaction force” following a number of deadly attacks by militant groups on their frontier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday after talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
22 April 2019
Strike destroys Yemen rebels’ drone cave
The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched an air raid on a cave in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, used by Huthi rebels to stockpile drones, a
20 April 2019