Vladimir Putin on Monday was sworn in as Russian president in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, marking the official commencement of his fourth term in this position. "Consider my duty and the meaning of my life to do everything for the prosperity and well-being of Russia", Putin told...

 Daesh (ISIS) Monday claimed responsibility for the assassination of a candidate in Iraq's parliamentary election just days ahead of the polls. Faruq Zarzur al-Juburi, a candidate loyal to Vice President Ayad Allawi, was shot dead by gunmen outside his home near Mosul, the former...

Egypt is holding political prisoners in "prolonged and indefinite solitary confinement" that amounts to "torture," an international rights group said Monday. In a new report, Amnesty International said dozens of detained human rights activists, journalists and members of the opposition...

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran would be willing not to abandon the nuclear deal even if the United States pulls out, providing the European Union offers guarantees that Iran would keep benefiting from the accord. Rouhani's remarks came ahead of President Donald Trump's decision...

Yemen’s formal alliance with the UAE may be coming to an end after the latter deployed forces to a Yemeni island without prior consultation with Yemen’s exiled government, a senior Yemeni official said Saturday. Over the past few days, the UAE has deployed some 300 soldiers, along with...

arcelona's unbeaten season remains intact after overcoming a Sergi Roberto red-card to earn a 2-2 draw versus Real Madrid in El Clasico on Sunday night at the Camp Nou in Barcelona.Luis Suarez fired the newly-crowned league champions into an early lead, but that was quickly answered by...

The man believed to have shot Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Sunday was affiliated to the new ultra-religious Tehreek-e-Labaik party, according to a police report seen by Reuters. The report said the shooter was Abid Hussain, 21, who "showed his affiliation" to the party,...

 Rescue teams have confirmed the death of a second Polish coal miner and are searching for three more trapped nearly a kilometer underground after a quake, the chief executive of the mine owner said. The quake hit the Borynia-Zofiowka-Jastrzebie coal mine in southern Poland on...

 Presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that Donald Trump would not be required to comply with a potential subpoena from the special counsel investigating possible collusion with Russia. But Giuliani, whose statements since he recently joined Trump's legal team have created...

Saudi Arabia has appointed a woman as a commercial attaché, the first such move in the history of the oil-rich kingdom. Samar Bint Mazin Saleh was named as a commercial attaché at the Saudi Commercial Attache’s office in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, according to a statement issued by...

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot and injured during a public meeting in his native town in northeastern Punjab province, a government official said. State Minister for Interior Talal Chaudhery told Anadolu Agency: “An unknown assailant has attacked the interior minister during a...

 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that if the United States quits the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers then Washington would regret it "like never before". US President Donald Trump has threatened to abandon the agreement when it comes up for renewal on May 12,...

The Yemeni government on Sunday decried the deployment of Emirati troops on the strategic island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea.   In a statement cited by the official Saba news agency, the government said the difference between it and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) “revolves around...

Indian armed forces on Sunday killed five militants, including a top commander and a university professor, in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the police in the region, the gunbattle began early on Sunday morning in Badigam village of Shopian.  ...

Tunisians began on Sunday to vote in the country’s first local election since a popular uprising ousted autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.   Polling stations opened at 8:00 a.m. (0700 GMT) across the North African country.   "We vote to improve municipal...

Israel struck a facility of the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers overnight, the movement's military wing said on Sunday, with the Israeli army saying it was reacting to kite-borne fire bombings. A military spokeswoman said it was a direct response to a new Palestinian tactic of flying kites...

An explosion in the Gaza Strip killed five Hamas gunmen on Saturday, Palestinian officials and residents said, adding the cause of the blast was unclear. Hamas's armed wing released a statement not long after blaming Israel for the explosion. The Israeli military denied any involvement....

Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss regional issues, the Israeli prime minister said in a statement on Saturday. Israel has been lobbying world powers to "fix or nix" a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran as a May 12 deadline set by...

Indian armed forces on Saturday killed three suspected militants in a gunbattle in Chattabal area, on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The gunbattle broke out on Saturday morning after the Indian forces launched a search operation in the area, where mobile...

Four Turkish opposition parties Saturday announced they had formed a coalition to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in snap elections on June 24. After the landmark vote, a new presidential system agreed in an April 2017 referendum will come into force, which the opposition says...