Boys played and chatted on a rickety wooden ramp under a baking sun in West Java, while just below their feet flowed one of Indonesia's most horribly polluted rivers, clogged with hundreds of tonnes...More
Thirty-one Rohingya Muslims have been detained in India after a standoff at the country's border with Bangladesh when both sides refused to accept the group, police said on Tuesday. As many as 1,300...More
The United States confirmed on Tuesday that its envoy is meeting in Qatar with the Taliban, seeking to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents...More
Bathed in light, musicians belt out melodies among pre-Islamic desert ruins in northwestern Saudi Arabia, a heritage trove at the centre of efforts to put the reclusive kingdom on the tourism map...More
U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to continue seeking a negotiated solution in north-eastern Syria in a phone call on Sunday, the White House said. "The...More
The anti-government protests rocking Sudan for the past month are reminiscent of the Arab Spring uprisings of nearly a decade ago. Demonstrators, many in their 20s and 30s, are trying to remove an...More
Israel's military said it carried out strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early on Monday after it intercepted a rocket fired from Syrian territory hours before. It said in a statement it was "...More
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed al-Gheiti, who has expressed his stance against...More
Asylum seekers from Algeria, Georgia, Morocco and Tunisia would have a harder time claiming the right to remain in Germany under a new law approved in the Bundestag last Friday. The measure was...More
Tunisia's influential General Labour Union (UGTT) has called for a new nationwide strike next month, raising pressure on the government to increase wages. Saturday's call comes two days after...More
Pakistan on Monday launched its first door-to-door campaign of the year to vaccinate millions of children against polio, an official said. "The five-day campaign will target 39.2 million children...More
Germany's Federal Aviation Office (LBA) is to revoke the licence of Iranian airline Mahan Air this week over suspected links to covert operations by the Iranian secret service, local media reported...More
Muslims in the southern Philippines voted on Monday in a referendum on a new autonomous region that seeks to end nearly half a century of unrest, in what their leaders are touting as the best...More
Charred walls, shattered windows, uncooked kebabs still on the counter – the blast that hit U.S. forces at this small restaurant in northern Syria has left residents fearful for the future. Wednesday...More
She is largely unknown in the United States. But the American anchorwoman for Iran's state-run broadcaster, detained last weekend by U.S. authorities, is a familiar face on its English-language...More
The mother of one of the British Islamic State militants suspected of murdering western hostages, lost a legal challenge on Friday that it was wrong for Britain to assist a U.S. investigation which...More
Pakistan swears in a new chief justice on Friday, opening the next chapter for the Supreme Court which has pursued an expansive agenda that has ranged from ousting a prime minister to pressing...More
Bangladesh has banned a film based on a 2016 cafe attack claimed by the Islamic State group that left 22 people dead, saying it would damage the country's reputation. The Film Censor Board denied the...More
The old quarter of Awamiya, a town on Saudi Arabia's oil-producing eastern shore that was once the centre of Shia protests, was levelled in 2017 following a security campaign against gunmen the...More
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, long wanted on genocide and war crimes charges, has rejected calls to step down in the face of mounting anti-regime demonstrations that have challenged his iron-...More
A radical cleric thought to be the spiritual leader of the Bali bombers will be released from prison on medical grounds, Indonesia's president said on Friday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 80, is believed to...More
Thousands gathered on Monday in Tunisia's capital as the country marked eight years since a democratic uprising ousted its long-time strongman. The rally came amid deepening economic troubles in the...More
The presidents of Turkey and Russia will meet in Moscow next week and discuss the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, the Turkish presidential spokesman said on Tuesday. Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan...More
Authorities in Mosul have begun demolishing a onetime icon of modern Iraqi architecture used by the Islamic State group to throw men accused of being gay to their deaths. Labourers and bulldozers on...More
The new special UN envoy to Syria began his first trip to Damascus on Tuesday, facing the daunting task of rekindling moribund peace talks and succeeding where his three predecessors failed. Geir...More
Dating back centuries, Algeria's pyramid tombs are unique relics of an ancient era, but a dearth of research has left the Jeddars shrouded in mystery. The 13 monuments, whose square stone bases are...More
A Saudi teen who caused an international sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad on Tuesday vowed to fight for women's freedoms in her first public address since she was taken in by...More
Germany's domestic intelligence agency said on Tuesday that it will step up monitoring for political extremism in the far-right AfD party, a blow to the party in a busy election year. The five-year-...More
A Czech court jailed a 71-year-old man for causing two passenger trains to derail in 2017 and attempting to blame Muslim immigrants, local media reported on Monday. The Central Bohemian court...More
Syria's Kurds on Wednesday rejected a U.S. proposal for a "security zone" under Turkish control along the Syrian side of the two countries' border. Senior political leader Aldar Khalil said the Kurds...More
Anti-corruption campaigners have filed a lawsuit accusing Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi of abuse of power after he pardoned a jailed party official close to his son, a court official said on...More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia for talks on Monday on a range of Middle East crises, topped by the conflicts in Syria and Yemen, threats from Iran and the Saudi response to...More
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi landed Sunday in Amman where he discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II about regional issues, against the backdrop of the United States seeking to build a...More
A "very, very happy" young Saudi woman who caused a sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad was welcomed with open arms in Toronto on Saturday at the end of a dramatic but...More
Turkey on Monday vowed to continue fighting a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia which it views as a terrorist group after Donald Trump warned of economic devastation if Ankara attacks Kurdish forces as...More
The Western-backed Palestinian Authority is threatening to step up pressure on Hamas amid renewed tensions in Gaza, even as Israel allows a lifeline of Qatari aid to flow directly to the Islamic...More
It was a Saudi wedding like any other – clutching a decorative sword, the groom bobbed and swayed in a traditional dance. But there was one striking difference – a tiny guest list. Weddings in the...More
The head of the Thomson Reuters Foundation said Monday she's "sincerely worried" about a detained British-Iranian national going on hunger strike to protest her treatment in the Islamic Republic...More
Hundreds of people gathered in Morocco's capital Rabat late on Saturday to mark the start of the Amazigh new year with a sit-in calling on the state to make the celebration a national holiday. Home...More
Egypt's Al-Azhar university on Sunday said it had expelled a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school's reputation. The video,...More
A 20-year-old student who disclosed the private data of nearly 1,000 politicians and others in one of Germany's biggest data breaches had expressed right-wing and anti-Muslim views on the Internet,...More
An 18-year-old Saudi woman's flight from what she said was an abusive family has rallied opposition to the kingdom's male guardianship system, still a major constraint on women despite the...More
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country wants to turn upcoming elections for the European Parliament into a vote on migration. The goal for Hungary is to secure the majority of posts...More
Maryland's ban on contracting with businesses that boycott Israel tramples on the First Amendment rights of a software engineer who advocates for Palestinians, a Muslim civil rights group claims in a...More
At least a dozen protesters were wounded in clashes with police on Wednesday after several thousand factory workers rallied in Bangladesh to demand the implementation of a garment sector pay scale...More
Saudi Arabia is trying to ban child marriage through new regulations, but loopholes are leaving young girls in the deeply conservative kingdom unprotected, campaigners said on Thursday. The Shura...More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed on Thursday that the United States and its allies would work diplomatically to expel all Iranian troops from Syria, urging Middle East nations to forge a...More
A Myanmar court on Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act, saying the defence had not provided sufficient...More
The United Nations has asked Australia to consider refugee resettlement for an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her, the Australian government said...More
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan rebuked Washington's national security adviser on Tuesday for demanding that his country not attack Kurdish fighters in Syria, accusing him of complicating President...More
The EU hit Iran's intelligence services with sanctions on Tuesday after accusing Tehran of being behind plots to assassinate regime opponents on Dutch, Danish and French soil. The move by the 28-...More
On Hadra al-Faqira's wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife. She hasn't seen him since he moved down the road in their dusty...More
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