New regime air strikes and heavy clashes shook Syria's rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta yesterday despite a UN demand for a ceasefire to end one of the most ferocious assaults of Syria's civil war.

An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said yesterday. Iraq

Campaigning began in Egypt's presidential election yesterday with incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi likely to romp to victory in the absence

The United States said Friday it will relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in May, bringing forward the contested move to coincide

The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior

The deputy director of the United Nations children'ss agency Justin Forsyth has resigned saying he doesn't want allegations of sexual misconduct made against him to "damage" the agency's work. Female colleagues of Forsyth's at Save the Children raised complaints against him in 2011 and 2015, alleging he had sent inappropriate text messages.

The world will have to confront "another nuclear crisis" if the landmark 2015 agreement between Iran and world powers is scrapped, Iran's deputy foreign minister warned. In a speech at London's Chatham House on Thursday, Abbas Araghchi said the "atmosphere of uncertainty" under US President Donald Trump has made it more difficult for Iran to stay with the deal, also known as the Joint

Warplanes pounded the last rebel enclave near the Syrian capital for a fifth straight day yesterday as the United Nations pleaded for a ceasefire to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war and prevent a "massacre".

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas yesterday called for an international conference to be held later this year to launch a new, wider

One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants has agreed to testify against him in a graft probe in a fresh blow

Iranian search teams yesterday found the wreckage of a plane that went missing in the Zagros mountains two days earlier with 66 people

The UN children's fund yesterday expressed "outrage" over the killings of children in Syria by issuing a blank statement, adding in a

Israeli warplanes carried out a fresh round of strikes in the Gaza Strip yesterday after a rocket fired by Palestinians slammed into

The Islamic State group killed 27 pro-government fighters in an ambush in Iraq, their paramilitary group said yesterday, underlining the

Heavy Syrian bombardment killed 44 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta yesterday, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an

Saudi Arabia yesterday welcomed a draft United Nations resolution offered by Britain, the United States and France that would

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned Tehran over aggressions by what he called Iran and its "proxies" in Syria,

Women in Saudi Arabia can now open their own businesses without the consent of a husband or male relative, as the kingdom pushes to

An Iranian passenger plane on a domestic flight crashed into the country's Zagros mountains killing all 66 people on board, officials say.

Indonesia has inked a billion-dollar deal to buy 11 Sukhoi Su-35 jets from Russia. The contract, signed by both countries'