The UN on Friday condemned the Taliban's increasingly violent response to peaceful protests, including using live rounds that killed several people, and warned that nearly all Afghan households weren...More
Parties seen as close to Morocco's king have dealt a crushing blow to the long-ruling Islamists in parliamentary elections, preliminary results on Thursday showed. The Justice and Development Party (...More
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier hit out at continuing prejudice against immigrant communities in praising the contribution made by Turks, Italians and other non-Germans to society on Friday...More
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much. That's according to a poll by The Associated...More
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is likely to have "emboldened" terrorists, the head of MI5 has warned. Director general Ken McCallum told the BBC that while the terror threat would not change...More
The Lebanese presidency says a new government has been formed, breaking a 13-month deadlock that saw the country slide deeper into financial chaos and poverty. Lebanon has been without a fully...More
A trial of unprecedented scale starts under high security on Wednesday to judge 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across Paris on November 13, 2015, the deadliest attack in...More
The U.N. atomic watchdog on Tuesday criticised Iran for stonewalling an investigation into past activities and jeopardising important monitoring work, possibly complicating efforts to resume talks on...More
A number of Syrian refugees who returned home have been subjected to detention, disappearance and torture at the hands of Syrian security forces, proving that it still isn’t safe to return to any...More
The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist militant group's founder as premier and a wanted man...More
When Moroccans elect a new parliament next week, it is likely to be a body with even less influence than its recent predecessors thanks to a new voting law and gradual moves by the king to reassert...More
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Qatar’s emir in Doha on Monday for crisis talks on Afghanistan after the Taliban claimed to have full control over the country. Blinken , accompanied...More
The prosecution of alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others restarts on Tuesday, just days before the 20th anniversary of the attacks, stirring new hopes for justice and...More
Moroccans go to the polls on Wednesday for parliamentary and local elections that will determine the fate of the Islamist party that has ruled since the Arab Spring uprisings. First elected in 2011,...More
Unaccompanied children at the Moria migrant camp on Greece's Lesbos island had to deal with rats, flooding and the threat of electrocution: all carefully documented by the staff caring for them...More
Twenty years after the September 11 attacks, the U.S. "war on terror" is still being fought on a piece of hilly scrubland in southeast Cuba known as Guantanamo Bay. Within months of the attacks, the...More
The last anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have acknowledged suffering major battlefield losses and called for a ceasefire, as the top U.S. diplomat flew to Qatar to try and handle the chaotic...More
The Taliban had barely completed their takeover of the Afghan capital Kabul when the local affiliate of the Islamic State group struck, sowing mayhem with a bloody airport attack. It was a symbolic...More
Alexanda Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all eight counts in a U.S. criminal indictment for the kidnapping, torture and death of American hostages, as well as providing material support to a...More
As a humanitarian catastrophe looms, relief organisations are scrambling to maintain their operations in war-ravaged Afghanistan, holding high-stakes talks with the Taliban in a bid to salvage their...More
Thousands of Indian security forces maintained a lockdown across Kashmir on Friday after the death of a separatist political leader sparked clashes with protesters. The death of Syed Ali Geelani at...More
When Ezmarai Ahmadi returned home from work on Sunday evening in Kabul, the usual gaggle of squealing children were waiting to greet him – his sons and daughters, and a slew of nieces and nephews. He...More
With the Taliban in possession of Kabul's airport after the United States completed its withdrawal on Tuesday, the focus will now shift from the mammoth Western evacuation operation seen in the past...More
The United States on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan , ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures,...More
Many people in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of Tunisia's 2011 revolution that launched the Arab Spring, see President Kais Saied's power grab as a necessary evil. But there are also fears that last month'...More
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah will be a notable absentee due to coronavirus travel restrictions when the group phase of qualifying in Africa for the 2022 World Cup finally kicks off on Wednesday...More
Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Sunday for the first official Israeli-Palestinian talks since Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took...More
U.S. anti-missile defences intercepted as many as five rockets that were fired at Kabul's airport early on Monday morning, the White House has confirmed, as the United States rushes to complete its...More
The Taliban has assured 100 countries that it will continue to allow foreigners and Afghans with foreign travel papers to leave the country "in a safe and orderly manner", even after the U.S. troop...More
After being forced to postpone their first face-to-face meeting because of the Afghanistan suicide bombings, U.S. President Joe Biden was scheduled to host Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at...More
Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday condemned travel bans imposed after Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed parliament and assumed sweeping powers last month. His move on 25 July,...More
The bombs that killed U.S. service members and Afghans in the desperate Kabul evacuation inflicted another casualty on the other side of the world – Joe Biden's presidency. Biden took office...More
Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school’s head teacher said on Thursday...More
The carnage from twin suicide bombings at Kabul airport will fuel fears that a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan could prove an increasingly powerful magnet for terror groups like Islamic State. The...More
Using laser pointers and noisy horns to torment Jewish settlers across the valley, Palestinians in Beita have set themselves apart from others demonstrating against Israel's occupation of the West...More
Afghanistan's two Paralympic athletes have been safely evacuated from the country, the International Paralympic Committee said on Wednesday, declining to specify their destination. The two taekwondo...More
With untreated sewage in the water and rubbish piled on the sand, pollution on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast is denying residents of the war-torn Libyan capital a much-needed escape. The environment...More
Afghans on Wednesday faced an increasingly desperate race to escape life under the Taliban after President Joe Biden confirmed U.S.-led evacuations will end next week. More than 70,000 people have...More
For years the Taliban's top spokesman shunned the public eye, even as he amassed hundreds of thousands of followers online where he live-tweeted the insurgency. But days after the Taliban captured...More
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday extended the suspension of parliament until further notice, the presidency said, after last month dismissing his prime minister and assuming executive...More
Pakistan's foreign minister has urged the Taliban and other leaders in neighbouring Afghanistan to try to reach an inclusive political settlement as soon as possible. Shah Mahmood Qureshi issued the...More
A firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen, Western security forces and Afghan guards at Kabul airport on Monday, Germany's armed forces said, as thousands of Afghans and foreigners thronged...More
The Israeli air force have targeted several positions of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip after clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters near the border in eastern...More
Israel on Sunday launched antibody testing for children aged as young as three, seeking information on the number of unvaccinated youths who have developed protection against coronavirus ahead of the...More
Do you want to buy a more than 3,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family heirloom? On auction site liveauctioneers.com,...More
After two decades out of power, the Taliban are swiftly moving to stamp their authority on Afghanistan using every tool at their disposal – including flags. Since rolling into Kabul a week ago, the...More
President Joe Biden said on Sunday the U.S.-led evacuation of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others from the Kabul airport accelerated this weekend, although it remains vulnerable to threats posed by...More
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have shot and killed a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist while hunting for him, the German public broadcaster said. The militants were conducting a house-to-...More
New restrictions to curb COVID transmission took effect in Israel on Wednesday as the prime minister urged citizens to get vaccinated, after the largely inoculated country saw its highest daily...More
Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah said on Thursday a tanker would set off from Iran "within hours" to bring desperately needed fuel supplies to Lebanon, in defiance of US sanctions. Many questions...More
Defiant protesters waved Afghan flags at scattered rallies Thursday to mark the country’s independence day, as a UN document suggests the Taliban are rounding up people placed on a blacklist for...More
Two-thirds of Germans fear a major influx of refugees following recent developments in Afghanistan, according to a survey published on Wednesday. Almost two thirds (62.9 percent) are worried about a...More
