Powers seek to boost Afghan peace effort

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and more than a dozen other national delegations yesterday
27 March 2018

Israel 'critically ill' under Netanyahu

Six former Israeli spymasters yesterday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of jeopardising the country's future as it prepares to
27 March 2018

Egypt's Sisi cruises towards victory amid slow voting

Egyptian authorities yesterday pressed for a high turnout on the second day of a presidential election designed to give President Abdel
27 March 2018

UAE says its first nuke reactor complete

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday that one of four nuclear reactors at its debut plant has been completed as it moves closer to
26 March 2018

Israel strikes Hamas in Gaza for second day

An Israeli tank struck two Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip late Sunday after bullets were fired from the Palestinian enclave, the Israeli
26 March 2018

Israel police question PM Netanyahu

Israeli police yesterday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his alleged dealings with the country's largest
26 March 2018

SYRIA WAR: Rebels blame each other for Ghouta defeat

Syrian rebel factions are blaming each other for opening the way to their defeat near Damascus, underlining splits that plagued the
26 March 2018

Evacuation gathers pace

Nearly 2,000 Syrian rebels and civilians began leaving a ravaged pocket of Eastern Ghouta yesterday, in fresh evacuations that
25 March 2018

Thousands of Africans protest Israeli deportation plan

Thousands of African asylum seekers and their local supporters protest against an Israeli plan to deport them.
25 March 2018

Bomb kills cop in Egypt ahead of election

A policeman was killed in a bomb attack yesterday targeting the security chief of Egypt's Alexandria, officials said, two days before the
24 March 2018

Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israel for first time

As Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel, El Al will take its own fight for access to Saudi airspace to the Supreme Court in Israel, officials say.
24 March 2018

Russian strikes kill 37 in E Ghouta

Russian air strikes killed 37 civilians in the Arbin area of the shrinking rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus overnight, the
23 March 2018

Crown Prince Salman bragged Kushner 'in his pocket': report

Jared Kushner, tasked by his boss and father-in-law, President Donald Trump, with mediating Middle East peace early in the
23 March 2018

Assad set for key victory

Syrian rebels and their families began leaving Syria's Eastern Ghouta yesterday under the first evacuation deal in the shrinking
22 March 2018

Iran has foiled US plans in Mideast

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran has neutralised US plans in the Middle East, in a speech yesterday marking
21 March 2018

Dozens killed in Syria

The death toll in a barrage of rebel rocket fire on a popular shopping district of Syria's capital Damascus has risen to 44 civilians, state
21 March 2018

Israel admits responsibility

Israel for the first time yesterday admitted that it was responsible for a top-secret 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear
21 March 2018

Suicide bomber kills 33

A suicide bomber yesterday killed dozens of people, many of them teenagers, after detonating a device among a crowd in Kabul who
21 March 2018

Egypt court bans Uber

Egypt's administrative court yesterday issued a ruling stopping the operations of ride sharing apps Uber amid opposition from taxi
20 March 2018

India confirms deaths of 39 workers in Iraq

The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave,
20 March 2018