Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at the capital's main airport from abroad on Saturday, according to a Reuters witness, following intense rumors that he was gravely ill and had sought medical help in Dubai. Mugabe, 92 and Africa's oldest leader, looked jovial as he disembarked in...

Eight members of Turkey's security forces and 11 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in clashes overnight in southeast Turkey, security sources said Saturday. The fighting, in Van province near the border with Iran, followed a day of violence across the...

BAGHDAD (AA) – At least 24 Iraqi people were killed and dozens more injured in clashes with members of the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq’s northern Saladin province, local officials said. Saladin police chief Ghazwan al-Jubouri said the clashes took place early Friday morning and at least 24...

Ireland has confirmed it will appeal a European Union ruling that ordered Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($14.6 billion) in back taxes in the country. The decision ends uncertainty over the country’s fragile government after independent ministers indicated they wanted the technology giant to...

Writing by Samir Taweel (Eqtsad)- Arabic and international media have circulated a shocking report of the British newspaper “the Guardian” that revealed that the U.N. has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people close to the Basher al-Assad as part of an aid programme....

Lebanon indicted two Syrian intelligence officers on Friday in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, state media said, the deadliest attack in the city since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990. The two blasts, at the Sunni Muslim Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in the...

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has described the first 100 days of Turkey’s 65th government -- which included an attempted coup and military operation in Syria -- as “eventful”. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Yildirim outlined policy decisions made by his Justice and Development (AK) Party...

European Union foreign ministers toned down their sometimes harsh views on Turkey as they gathered in Slovakia on Friday, although concerns about a crackdown following a failed coup were still running high. Turkey has accused the EU of being slow and half-hearted in its condemnation of the...

Rescuers pulled 1,725 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as seaborne arrivals to Europe's southern shores keep climbing. Sixteen separate missions were involved in rescuing the migrants, including Italy's coast guard and navy, the European...

The United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters. The report is to...

Israel approved on Wednesday 284 new housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing a U.S. accusation that its policies could expand settlements in a "potentially unlimited way." U.S. officials said the criticism from the U.S. State Department marked the first time it...

The intelligence wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested an Iranian-American dual national in late July on charges of plotting against national security and working with hostile governments, the news site of the Iranian judiciary said. Mizan Online said on Wednesday the person was arrested...

Behind the front lines in the Libyan city of Sirte, ageing tanks crunch through the debris of battle to new positions and resting fighters drink sweetened coffee waiting for orders to advance. Ahead, Islamic state militants besieged in a single residential neighborhood and targeted by U.S. air...

Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. Al Qaeda-linked Islamists based in the remote...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian swimmer Ibrahim al-Hussein is participating in the Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro from the disabled, under Greece flag. Al-Hussein lost his lower limb during rescuing operation in in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor .  He also used to suffer some injuries...

India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEE.NS) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its sports broadcasting business to Sony Pictures Networks for $385 million, as it rejigs its media content delivery businesses. TEN Sports holds broadcast rights to major cricket boards in South...

U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan have killed four commanders of the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban, as government forces try to retake a district captured by insurgents last week, Afghan officials said on Tuesday. Naqeeb Ahmad Atal, a spokesman for the governor of...

Three Saudi children were killed by missiles launched from Yemen on Sunday and Monday, local media reported. Six other people were injured when a missile hit homes in the southern province of Najran. Among the casualties was the wounded mother of a boy who was killed Monday, Saudi Arabia’s...

Eighteen fighters loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government were killed and 120 others wounded in clashes Sunday with ISIS in Sirte, a medical source said. A field hospital for the forces backing the Government of National Accord listed the names of the 18 fighters killed in the coastal...

Iran has arrested a member of the negotiating team that reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers on suspicion of spying, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. The suspect was released on bail after a few days in jail but is still under investigation, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said at...