A car bomb targeting a group of Turkish contractors exploded on Saturday in Afgoye, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said. There was no immediate word on any fatalities. “A speeding suicide car bomb rammed into a place where the Turkish engineers and Somali police were...

The United Nations mission in Libya said on Saturday it was deeply concerned over efforts to disrupt oil production in the country and urged all sides to exercise restraint. “This move would have devastating consequences first and foremost for the Libyan people who depend on the free flow...

The Taliban are aiming to reach a withdrawal agreement with the US by the end of January and are prepared to "scale down" military operations ahead of signing the deal, according to their chief spokesman. The statement by Suhail Shaheen to Pakistani daily Dawn comes as the group and the US...

Russia's foreign policy chief on Friday US policies for growing global tensions, noting Washington's reluctance to extend a key nuclear arms pact. Speaking at an annual news conference, Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the US has stonewalled Russia's push for extending the New...

The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, reopened on Saturday after being shut down by workers striking over government plans to overhaul France's pension system. On Friday, hundreds of disappointed visitors had massed outside the Louvre, some hurling insults at strikers who...

The number of migrants entering Europe from Turkey rose significantly last year as people fleeing strife in Syria and Afghanistan flooded into the country and then set out for Greece, the head of the European Union’s border agency said Friday. More than 82,000 migrants tried to enter...

Named as one of the best movies of the year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR and The Washington Post, THE CAVE, nominated for a 2020 Academy Award®, will make its broadcast debut on Jan. 25 at 9/8c in the U.S., followed by a global rollout across 172 countries and 43 languages....

Mexico deployed around 200 National Guard officers to the Guatemalan border on Friday in an effort to block a huge migrant caravan traversing Central America toward the United States. A group of more than 3,000 people, mainly from Honduras and El Salvador, crossed into Guatemala on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people from the same family were killed overnight in a Russian airstrikes on a building sheltering displaced people in northern Aleppo province, local reporter said. A family of father, mother and two children lost their lives in the Russian strike on the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Europe it could face new threats from terrorist organisations if Libya's UN-recognised government in Tripoli were to fall. In the article, published on Saturday on the eve of a Libya peace conference in Berlin, Erdogan said the EU's...

 Yemen’s warring sides opened a new front in their five-year conflict on Saturday - a battle over old and new banknotes that threatens to create two economies in the same state. As of midnight, the Houthi movement which controls the capital Sanaa outlawed the use and possession of...

A group of anti-government protestors tried to enter a Paris theater while French President Emmanuel Macron was inside, according to media reports Friday.  Reports said dozens of protesters gathered in front of the theater after accounts shared on social media indicated Macron was in...

Rafael Nadal said passion and positivity had helped him reach an unprecedented third decade ranked world number one, after defying the ravages of injury and the critics who said his all-action game was too tough on his body. Despite a steady stream of foot, knee, back, arm, hand and wrist...

Families of the 176 people killed when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner face a complicated legal battle where backing from the victims' governments may be crucial as they seek damages, legal experts said. Lawyers say many relatives will automatically be entitled to compensation...

Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated Friday in downtown Amman, calling on the government to cancel an agreement in which Israel began pumping natural gas to the kingdom this year. Jordanian security forces prevented the protesters from reaching symbolic Al-Nakheel Square in the capital,...

Iran's football federation said Friday it has been told it will not be hosting any international matches on Iranian soil. The federation said it received a letter from the Asian Football Confederation saying that all matches involving Iranian teams will be held in a third country....

Two protesters were killed and over a dozen wounded Friday in central Baghdad following renewed violence between anti-government demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, activists and officials said. The deaths follow weeks of calm. Riot police fired tear gas and hurled sound bombs to...

President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has now endured through nearly nine years of civil conflict. The question for those invested in Syria’s future is no longer whether the regime will survive but how it will seek to consolidate its power before ending the war still ravaging the country....

The world's shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records, died Friday at a hospital in Nepal, his family said. Khagendra Thapa Magar, who measured 67.08 centimetres (2 feet 2.41 inches), died of pneumonia at a hospital in Pokhara, 200 kilometres from Kathmandu,...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called Friday for an immediate cessation of hostilies in Idlib, saying that the latest Syrian ceasefire had "yet again failed to protect civilians". "It is deeply distressing that civilians are still being killed on a daily basis in...