A migrant intercepted aboard a dinghy off the coast in the Strait of Gibraltar, smiles as she rests after arriving on a rescue boat at the

The United Arab Emirates yesterday announced a pause in the offensive it is backing against Huthi rebels in Yemen's port city of Hodeida,

Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians, one of them a 14-year-old boy, and wounded 415 others with live fire and tear gas during

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani declared a formal end to his government's ceasefire with the Taliban yesterday but called on the

US economic pressure on Iran is intended to turn Iranians against their government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was

Saudi authorities have launched a probe after a female TV presenter wore "indecent" clothes while reporting on the end of a decades-long woman driving ban, triggering outrage on social media.

A barrage of Russian strikes on rebel-held towns in southern Syria killed 22 civilians yesterday, the bloodiest day yet of the government's offensive in the strategic region.

A barrage of Russian strikes on rebel-held towns in southern Syria kills 22 civilians, the bloodiest day yet of the government's offensive in the strategic region.

Syrian troops have made strategic gains from rebels in the south, a monitor said yesterday, as they ramped up an offensive causing yet another wave of mass displacement.

The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen yesterday said its forces killed eight members of Lebanon's Shia militant group

Libya's coastguard has rescued nearly 1,000 migrants who were on boats in distress in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe, the

Government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Deraa city for the first time in nearly a year yesterday, a rebel and a war monitor

A decades-old ban on women driving cars in Saudi Arabia ended yesterday, quashing a conservative tradition seen by rights activists

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser, said Washington would announce its Middle East peace plan soon, and

Saudi Arabian women celebrates being able to drive for the first time in decades today, as the kingdom overturnes the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

Iraq yesterday said it had killed 45 jihadists from the Islamic State group, including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria,

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest yesterday for the first time in a year, a war

The United Nations commends the commitment demonstrated by the government of Bangladesh in supporting the Rohingya refugees and highlighted that the root causes of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar must be addressed.

Taliban militants kill at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara was yesterday charged with fraud and breach of trust after a lengthy police probe into allegations she falsely claimed meals worth $100,000, the justice ministry said.