Taliban gunmen killed nine people, including four foreigners, in an attack on a luxury hotel used by U.N. staff and prominent Afghan politicians in Kabul on Thursday night, before being shot dead by security forces, witnesses and police said on Friday. The assault on the heavily...
The ousted chairman of rebels Joint Chief of Staff, General Salim Idriss revealed to Zaman Alwasl that he wrote his resignation to the fronts’ leaders who went to negotiate with the coalition president Mr. Ahmed al-Jarba, to end the crisis that followed Idris’s dismissal....
A U.N. convoy of about 80 trucks is ready to cross the Turkish border into Syria for the first time, aid officials said Wednesday, in a step they hope will pave the way for humanitarian access to the country’s most desperate areas . The convoy became possible...
A Saudi court has sentenced 13 men to up to 14 years in prison for security offences including material support to wanted Islamist militants, aiding terrorism and helping young men go to Iraq , Syria and Afghanistan to fight. The conservative...
