Government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Deraa city for the first time in nearly a year yesterday, a rebel and a war monitor

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser, said Washington would announce its Middle East peace plan soon, and

A decades-old ban on women driving cars in Saudi Arabia ended yesterday, quashing a conservative tradition seen by rights activists

Saudi Arabian women celebrates being able to drive for the first time in decades today, as the kingdom overturnes the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

Iraq yesterday said it had killed 45 jihadists from the Islamic State group, including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria,

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest yesterday for the first time in a year, a war

The United Nations commends the commitment demonstrated by the government of Bangladesh in supporting the Rohingya refugees and highlighted that the root causes of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar must be addressed.

Taliban militants kill at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara was yesterday charged with fraud and breach of trust after a lengthy police probe into allegations she falsely claimed meals worth $100,000, the justice ministry said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his ruling AK Party could seek to form a coalition if it fails to secure a parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections, a prospect which has unsettled investors who fear it could lead to political deadlock.

Thousands of civilians have fled regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Syria's southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said yesterday.

In a royal decree issued on June 21, 2017, King Salman ousts his nephew as crown prince and installs his 31-year-old son, Mohammed, as his heir. Widely known as MBS, Prince Mohammed retains his role as defence minister. The move caps a meteoric rise for the young prince. It comes at the start of a major fallout with Qatar.

Yemeni forces seized Hodeida airport yesterday in a major step towards retaking the rebel-held port city after a week of fighting that has

As many as 192 passengers could be missing after a ferry sank into the depths of a volcanic lake in Indonesia, the search-and-rescue

Several dozen rockets and mortar bombs launched at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli air strikes on the enclave's dominant

UAE-backed Yemeni government forces fought their way into Hodeida airport yesterday, pressing an offensive that has seen some of the

Warplanes struck an opposition-held area in Syria's southwestern Deraa province yesterday, a war monitor and local activists reported, a

The search for victims of a ferry that sank in the lake of an ancient supervolcano crater in Indonesia will resume today with divers and

Two Bangladeshi men were burnt to death as a fire broke out in a fume factory in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, last Saturday.

Hundreds of Afghan peace marchers arrived exhausted in the capital, Kabul, yesterday after spending the fasting month of Ramadan crossing the sun-baked, war-torn country, much of it under Taliban control.