Yemen's exiled government backed out of UN-brokered peace talks as loyalist forces supported by a Saudi-led coalition launched a major offensive yesterday against Shia Huthi rebels.

The al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on young Muslim men in Western countries to carry out lone-wolf attacks – and urged greater unity between militants.

Clashes have broken out at the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem after Israeli police entered the compound, reports say.

Criminals vandalised houses of 20 families and looted their valuables at Gilajhuki village in Nawabganj upazila under the district on

Saudi Arabia on Friday banned the slaughter of camels during this year's hajj pilgrimage, after a surge in deaths from the MERS virus linked to the animals.

Eleven people were killed in rebel rocket fire on the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. The Britain-based

Egypt's prime minister and his cabinet resigned yesterday following a corruption scandal and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi tasked the

This year's hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse which killed more than 100 people at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, a Saudi official tells AFP.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha urges the lawyers to cooperate with the judges to adjudicate the cases quickly and to reduce their backlog.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday praised the countries which sided with "justice" by voting for the Palestinians to be allowed to raise their flag at United Nations headquarters.

There is a growing belief within the US government that the Islamic State militant group is making and using crude chemical weapons in Iraq and Syria, a US official has told the BBC.

A massive construction crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque in stormy weather Friday, killing 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities say, less than a fortnight before the hajj pilgrimage starts.

The organisers of Lebanon's "You Stink" mass protests over piles of festering trash in the streets yesterday criticised the government's

At least 30 people have died in clashes in the Turkish city of Cizre since a military operation began there last week, Turkey's interior ministry said yesterday. The ministry said most of the dead were Kurdish militants but the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said 20 civilians were killed in the violence.

Dozens of Syrian government troops and Islamic State fighters have been killed in fighting around a government-held air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, a monitoring group said on Thursday,

A mobile court sentenced three drug peddlers to different jail terms in Badarganj upazila of the district yesterday afternoon. The convicts

A Dhaka court places 13 Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists including two former lawmakers on a three-day remand in a case filed over bomb recovery.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque says none can intercept sacrificial animal-laden trucks in the name of verifying necessary papers without any specific information.

High Court rejects a writ petition that challenged legality of the constitutional provision that recognises Islam as the state religion.

Law enforcers arrested six youths while they were trying to extort Tk 1 lakh from a local contractor in Nilphamari Sadar upazila on Friday night.