Saudi women need not wear the abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith - a senior member of the top Muslim clerical body said, another indication of the Kingdom's efforts towards modernisation.

Egypt's air force pounded militant targets in northern and central Sinai early yesterday, the military said, the second day of an assault to

The UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for urgent deliveries of

Saudi women need not wear the abaya - the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith - a senior member of the top

Narendra Modi yesterday became the first Indian prime minister to visit the occupied West Bank where he held talks with Palestinian

US President Donald Trump yesterday told Israel that it too would need to make "significant compromises" for peace with the

France demanded an end to air strikes in Syria yesterday as warplanes mounted further attacks on a rebel stronghold near Damascus where a war monitor said government bombardments have killed 229 people, the deadliest week in the area since 2015.

The US-led coalition yesterday said it killed at least 100 pro-regime fighters to fend off an attack on its allies in eastern Syria, in one

Al-Qaeda's global network remains "remarkably resilient," posing more of a threat in some regions than the Islamic State group, UN

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at police over claims detectives probing graft allegations against him were

Saudi Arabia yesterday executed four Pakistani men convicted of raping and murdering a woman and raping her teenage son, the interior

A Palestinian stabbed a security guard at the entrance to an Israeli settlement and was shot dead yesterday, the army said, in the latest

Fresh regime strikes killed 32 civilians yesterday in a rebel-held enclave near Damascus where overwhelmed medics were still treating the

Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 35 civilians yesterday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Saudi air defences intercepted a ballistic missile fired at the kingdom by Yemen's Shia Huthi rebels yesterday, state media reported. The

Iranian security forces shot and wounded a man who tried to enter the president's office in central Tehran by force yesterday, local media

At least 23 civilians were killed yesterday as Syrian government air strikes pounded a rebel-held enclave near the capital Damascus, a

Israel yesterday granted legal status to a previously unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank in response to a Palestinian shooting attack last month that killed one of its residents.

Israeli aircraft hit a Hamas compound in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, after Palestinians there fired a rocket into the Jewish state,

A Brazilian federal judge on Friday ordered that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's seized passport be returned. A lower court