A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens in an area near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor...More
India recorded the world’s highest daily tally of 314,835 coronavirus infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope...More
The latest Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday no longer includes Germany among the leading nations. Of the 180 countries assessed, Germany came 13th, down two...More
The Myanmar military junta's crackdown on anti-coup protesters has displaced close to a quarter of a million people, a United Nations rights envoy said on Wednesday. The military has stepped up its...More
Peering through binoculars, a Yemeni commander scans a forbidding desert moonscape for lurking Houthi rebels, who are ramping up a bloody offensive to seize the strategic oil-rich region of Marib...More
Outside the Minneapolis court house, a crowd had gathered to hear a verdict that many feared could plunge the nation into a new spasm of protest and unrest. When a man with a bullhorn relayed the...More
Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being declared "terrorists" by Egypt , despite a recent push to repair strained ties, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday, adding Ankara...More
Pakistani journalist Absar Alam, famous for his blunt criticism of the country's powerful military, has been shot and wounded, triggering calls for investigations and condemnation. A gunmen shot the...More
As Sushil Kumar Srivastava's breathlessness worsened, his family bundled the 70-year-old into a car and drove him to a hospital in the capital of India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, where he tested...More
A Washington-backed Afghan peace conference in Turkey has been postponed due to the Taliban’s non-participation, three sources told journalists on Tuesday. The meeting was scheduled for April 24 to...More
It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed's kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often is. Food had to be on the table at precisely 7:07 p.m. when the sun sets and the daylong fast ends. What is...More
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is suing prison officials for denying him access to the Muslim holy book, the Koran, in his penal colony outside Moscow. Navalny, who is serving a two-and-a-half...More
To master the art of Koran recitation, 21-year-old Hassan Ali Kasi had to follow a strict regime of yoga, hours of rehearsing vocal scales – and a total ban on biryani. His dedication is paying off,...More
A Turkish court released journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan last Wednesday after more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in a failed 2016 coup attempt that he had always denied. The...More
Israel rescinded the mandatory wearing of face masks outdoors and fully re-opened schools on Sunday in the latest return to relative normality, boosted by a mass-vaccination campaign against the...More
A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt's health ministry said, in the latest rail calamity to hit the North African country. The ministry, in an...More
Eleven Pakistani police officers seized by supporters of a radical Islamist group as part of their campaign to get the French ambassador expelled have been released, officials said Monday. The...More
Every spring, roses bloom in the western Saudi city of Taif, turning pockets of the kingdom's vast desert landscape a vivid and fragrant pink. In April, they are harvested for the essential oil used...More
Iran and global powers resumed talks on Thursday to rescue the 2015 nuclear deal in an effort potentially complicated by Tehran’s decision to ramp up uranium enrichment and what it called Israeli...More
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Kabul on Thursday to show support for the Afghan government and civil society a day after President Joe Biden said he was pulling...More
The Israeli military said early on Friday it had carried out airstrikes on military targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave hit southern Israel. Fighter jets and...More
Fronted by a 20-year-old in pigtails, the dancing flash mob swings into action, campaigning to save a threatened wildlife reserv e – part of a growing, youth-led environmental movement rattling...More
Four people were killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb attack on Thursday in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical workers said. The car was parked at a busy second-hand...More
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday briefed his Afghan counterpart Mohammad Hanif Atmar on NATO discussions in which the allies agreed to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan by...More
Pilgrims immunised against coronavirus circled Islam's holiest site in Saudi Arabia's Mecca city on Tuesday as they performed the year-round umrah pilgrimage on the first day of the fasting month of...More
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has told Congress it is proceeding with more than $23 billion in weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates, including advanced F-35 aircraft, armed drones...More
Turkey will host a peace summit for Afghanistan from 24 April to 4 May meant to jump-start efforts to end the war and sketch out a possible political settlement, Turkish authorities said on Tuesday...More
Tunisian police on Tuesday clashed with journalists at the state news agency demonstrating against a new chief executive whose appointment they see as an attempt to undermine editorial independence...More
Iran said on Tuesday it will start enriching uranium to 60% purity, a move bringing the fissile material closer to levels suitable for a bomb, after accusing Israel of sabotaging a key nuclear...More
Egyptians are celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in more normal conditions despite concerns about a rise in coronavirus cases and a possible third wave of infections. Last...More
President Joe Biden’s planned announcement on Wednesday of a complete U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by 11 September aims to close the book on America’s longest war, as critics warn that peace is...More
Iran imposed a 10-day lockdown across most of the country on Saturday to curb the spread of a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, state media reported. The lockdown affects 23 of the country’s...More
The United Arab Emirates has selected the first Arab woman to train as an astronaut, as the Gulf country rapidly expands into the space sector to diversify its economy. Emirati national Nora al-...More
Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh and a delegation of ministers will make their first visit to Turkey on Monday since taking office last month, the Turkish presidency said on Sunday. Libya’s...More
An incident at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility on Sunday was caused by an act of “nuclear terrorism”, the country’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said, according to state TV, adding that Tehran...More
Thirteen people who describe themselves as "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN...More
As Pakistani transgender woman Jiya measures customers at her tailoring shop in a brand new Karachi market, her eyes gleam with the prospect of a busy Ramadan season and her ambitions to expand...More
Jordan’s King Abdullah appeared in public Sunday alongside his half-brother Prince Hamzah, state TV showed, their first joint appearance since a palace crisis involving the prince rocked the kingdom...More
Israel will work with Washington to ensure any “new agreement” on Iran’s nuclear programme will safeguard regional security, Defence Minister Benny Gantz told his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on...More
An expedition of Egyptian archaeologists has unearthed a 3,000-year-old "lost city" in present-day Luxor, a discovery that is being described as one of the most important finds in Egypt since...More
India reported another record number of new COVID-19 infections on Friday with daily deaths also hitting their highest in more than five months as the country battles a second wave of infections and...More
A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives, saying CEO Mark Zuckerberg made "false and deceptive" statements to Congress when he said the giant social network removes hate speech and...More
Israel on Thursday said it had formally decided not to co-operate with an International Criminal Court war crimes investigation into the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories . The ICC's...More
India 's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea to stop the government from deporting to Myanmar some 150 Rohingya Muslims police detained last month, paving the way for them to be sent to a...More
The United States committed on Wednesday to move all remaining combat forces from Iraq , although the two sides did not set a timeline in what would be the second withdrawal since the 2003 invasion...More
An Egyptian court sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat, the former acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood , to life in prison on Thursday, months after he was detained in a Cairo apartment. Security forces...More
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that talks in Vienna on rescuing a troubled 2015 nuclear deal had opened a "new chapter". An Iranian delegation met on Tuesday with representatives...More
Myanmar 's ambassador to Britain accused a Yangon military-linked figure of occupying the embassy on Wednesday and barring him access, in an extraordinary diplomatic stand-off a month after the envoy...More
U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday restored aid to the Palestinians to a tune of $235 million, drawing a rebuke by ally Israel , as he promised to press for a two-state solution. In his sharpest...More
The European Commission hit out on Wednesday after its chief, Ursula von der Leyen, was left without a chair as Turkey's president sat down for talks with her male counterpart. Video from Tuesday's...More
An Iranian ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Tehran acknowledged on Wednesday. Iran's Foreign...More
A Turkish court on Wednesday jailed 32 former soldiers for life in a mass trial involving nearly 500 military defendants implicated in a failed 2016 bid to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . In...More
Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire last Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely self-taught photographer who scaled the heights of his profession while documenting wars, riots and human suffering. By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Mike Collett-White
