Saudi Arabia yesterday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, state media reported. "The general directorate of traffic today

A kiss by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a Filipino woman's lips while on an official visit in South Korea sparked anger and jokes

At least seven people were killed in a suicide bombing yesterday near a gathering of top clerics in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, roughly

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigned yesterday after he was summoned by King Abdullah II over growing protests against his

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang's state media reported yesterday,

Indonesian anti-terrorism police have detained a former student and are questioning two others after a raid on a university campus in

Nearly half of Afghanistan's children are not attending school because of worsening security, poverty and sex discrimination,

Israeli aircraft pounded over a dozen militant targets in Gaza, the army said yesterday, after Palestinian projectile fire shattered a

Israeli forces killes a Palestinian nurse on Friday as she tries to help a wounded protester at the Gaza border, according to health officials and a witness, while Israel says militants have attacked its troops with gunfire and a grenade.

A Palestinian man who allegedly tried to hit Israeli soldiers with a small tractor in the West Bank city of Hebron was shot dead, the army

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in for a second four-year term in office yesterday as the country faces major economic

The United States vetoed Friday an Arab-backed UN draft resolution calling for measures to protect the Palestinians but failed to win any backing for its own text condemning Hamas for the violence in Gaza.

Saudi Arabia has threatened military action against Qatar if it goes ahead and acquires Russia's top of the range S-400 air defence missile system, Le Monde daily reported.

Ukraine was under fire yesterday after it admitted staging the murder of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko, despite relief in Russia and Ukraine

Czech populist billionaire Andrej Babis said yesterday he would be named premier for the second time on June 6, eyeing a minority

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned US-backed Kurdish forces he would not hesitate to use force to retake the third of the

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order in 2011 for the military to prepare to attack Iran within 15 days, a former Mossad chief

Two assailants stabbed to death a traffic policeman in the western Saudi Arabian city of Taif and then exchanged gunfire with security forces at a nearby National Guard facility, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.

A former Mossad chief tells an Israeli television program that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the order in 2011 for the military to prepare to attack Iran within 15 days.

Saudi Arabia has passed a new law to criminalise sexual harassment, state media said yesterday, less than a month before the