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Kuwait bans visa for five nations

Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visas for nationals of Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

'We can cut funding routes'

Indonesia and Australia yesterday pledged to "choke off" funding to terrorist groups planning attacks, as fears grow
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Regime advances against IS in Aleppo

Syria's military said yesterday it had captured a string of towns and part of a key highway from the Islamic State group
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Saudi soldier killed in Yemen border

A Saudi soldier has been killed in a firefight on the border with Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been battling
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

US travel ban not anti-Islam

US President Donald Trump's travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations is not anti-Islam, the United Arab Emirates foreign minister said yesterday.
1 February 2017, 18:31 PM

Israel plans 3000 new homes

Israel announced plans for 3,000 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the third such declaration in eleven days since US
1 February 2017, 18:18 PM

Iran confirms missile test, says didn’t violate nuclear deal

Iran's defense minister says it had tested a new missile but this did not breach the Islamic Republic's nuclear accord with world powers or a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the pact.
1 February 2017, 15:11 PM

Iran test-fires missile

Iran yesterday warned the United States against "creating new tensions" over its ballistic missile tests as Washington called for urgent talks at the UN Security Council on the issue.
31 January 2017, 18:21 PM

Two Saudis killed in Yemen rebel sea strike

Yemeni rebel "suicide" boats attacked a Saudi warship on patrol in the Red Sea, killing two sailors in a rare naval clash in the nearly two-
31 January 2017, 18:21 PM

Banned countries have no terror link in US, critics say

Critics are pointing out that Donald Trump’s immigration restriction has excluded countries where citizens have terrorism records in the US.
31 January 2017, 08:54 AM

'Gift to extremists'

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday said that US President Donald Trump's decision to ban arrivals from seven
29 January 2017, 18:15 PM

'57 dead' in US raid on Qaeda in Yemen

A US raid in Yemen killed 41 suspected al-Qaeda militants and 16 civilians yesterday, an official said, in what would be America's first
29 January 2017, 18:13 PM

Palestinian killed in WB

A Palestinian, 19, was shot dead and five others were wounded by Israeli soldiers yesterday at the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank,
29 January 2017, 18:12 PM

Air raids kill 10 in Syria

Air strikes killed 10 civilians including seven children in areas near a town held by the Islamic State group in north Syria on Saturday, a
29 January 2017, 18:11 PM

Israeli cops grill PM

Israeli police on Friday grilled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence in a third round of questioning over
28 January 2017, 18:12 PM

Palestinian attacker shot dead: Israel

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank shot dead a Palestinian who drove at a bus stop in an attempted car-ramming attack
26 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Heavy snowfall kills 27 Afghan children

Heavy snowfall and freezing weather has killed 27 children, all under the age of five, in a remote district in northern
26 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Daughter receives Maksuda’s body

The body of Maksuda Begum, who died in Beirut of Lebanon allegedly due to the negligence of the Bangladesh embassy there, is handed over to her family.
26 January 2017, 05:18 AM

Syria girl pens letter to Trump

Seven-year-old Syrian girl Bana al-Abed, who came to international attention with her tweets giving a tragic account of
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Kuwait hangs seven people including royal

Kuwait yesterday hanged seven people including a member of the ruling family and a woman who burned dozens of
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM