The convoy of the leader of one of Iraq's main Shi'ite militias, Aws al-Khafaji, came under attack and two of his guards were wounded, Baghdad-based Afaq TV reported on Friday. An explosive device blew up as his convoy was passing in the region of Arab Jubour, just south of...
The influential speaker of Lebanon's parliament signaled on Friday that a deal to elect a president was almost ready, raising hopes that a presidential vacuum which has paralyzed the political system for nearly two years could soon be filled. Lebanese newspaper An-nahar cited...
The first delivery of Russia's S-300 missile defense system to Iran will take place in August or September this year, RIA news agency on Friday quoted Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia's industrial conglomerate Rostec, as saying. RIA quoted an unnamed source earlier as saying...
Iran said on Thursday that its test-firing of ballistic missiles, designed to be able to hit Israel, were not a violation of a landmark nuclear deal reached in 2015 with six major powers, state TV quoted a senior official as saying. "Iran's missile program and its test-firing of...
A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had exchanged prisoners with its Houthi opponents and also welcomed a pause in combat on the border, prompting hopes of a push to end the year-long war that has killed some 6,000 people. Riyadh's confirmation of a rare...
Turkish security forces have completed operations against Kurdish militants in the Sur district of southeast Turkey's largest city, Diyarbakir, but searches are continuing in the area, security sources said on Wednesday. Security operations targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters have...
Tunisian security forces pressed a search for extremists near the Libyan border Tuesday after a deadly raid the authorities described as an "unprecedented" assault by ISIS. Prime Minister Habib Essid said around 50 extremists were believed to have taken part in Monday's coordinated attack...
Russia's sports minister Tuesday said he hoped to see tennis star Maria Sharapova back on court after she failed a dope test at the Australian Open. "I feel sorry for Masha. I hope that we will see her back on court and we are prepared to support her," minister Vitaly Mutko told state-run TASS...
Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests Tuesday in an exercise to demonstrate "deterrent power," a move that comes in defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed over its missile program in January. The announcement by the official IRNA news agency said the tests showed the country's "all-out...
Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed at least 50 people, including civilians, the government and residents said. Local television broadcast images of...
The U.S. military carried out a drone strike over the weekend targeting a training camp run by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab about 120 miles north of capital Mogadishu over the weekend, killing more than 150 fighters, the Pentagon said on Monday. "It was a successful strike,"...
Turkey's state-run news agency says security forces have arrested two suspected ISIS militants and seized plastic explosives and a suicide vest. Anadolu Agency says Monday that the two were apprehended at a border crossing, when authorities noticed that they were trying to place a bag inside...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 29 ISIS-affiliated militants and 7 civilians have been killed in the ongoing clashes between Tunisian army and police with the Islamist militants in Ben Gardane, a town close to the Libyan frontier, on Monday, interior ministry said in statement The statement assured...
Suicide bomber kills at least eight at Pakistan court- Reuters
Tunisia’s trade union federation, a joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said Sunday Bahrain denied entry to two of its members in a row over Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah. (The Daily Star)
ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bomb blast that killed at least 47 people Sunday south of Baghdad. In a statement posted on social media, ISIS named the bomber who detonated his explosives-laden truck at a checkpoint outside the city of Hilla as Abu Islam al-Ansari....
Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya returned to Italy Sunday to a mute homecoming, amid questions over why two others snatched with them were killed. Gino Pollicardo, 55, and Filippo Calcagno, 65, were met by relieved relatives at Rome's Ciampino airport in the early hours and...
Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...
France will deliver arms, that were initially manufactured for the Lebanese army under a now suspended $3 billion Saudi grant, to Riyadh instead, a media report said Saturday. (The Daily Star)
Gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including four Christian nuns from India, local officials and medical sources said. The four attackers told a guard they were on a visit to their mother, then stormed into the...
