Saudi Arabia is moving ahead with plans to hold a glitzy investment forum, despite some of its most important speakers pulling out in the global outcry over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal...More
The dominant party in Iraq's Kurdistan has secured the most seats in the autonomous region's parliament, despite its leader Massoud Barzani having championed an ill-fated independence referendum last...More
A global financial watchdog has warned Iran to clamp down on terrorism financing by February or face a deeper squeeze on its sanctions-hit economy. The Islamic Republic, already hurt by a resumption...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to reveal on Tuesday what he has said is the "naked truth" about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul – a killing Ankara...More
Taiwan's Mega International Commercial Bank will immediately terminate its payment clearing mechanism between Taiwan and Iran in a response to the United States' sanctions on Iran, a senior bank...More
Libya and its north African neighbours are opposed to the EU's plan for "regional disembarkation platforms" to stem the flow of migrants entering the bloc, Tripoli's Foreign Minister Mohamed al-Taher...More
Egyptian police on Sunday arrested the author of a book about Egypt's economy on charges of publishing false news, security sources and the author's wife said. Abdul Khalik Farouk's detention came...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that Berlin would not export arms to Saudi Arabia for now in the wake of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi's violent death. "I agree with all those who...More
Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman has shaken up the ultraconservative oil superpower with economic, social and religious reforms since becoming crown prince last year. But many now see his crackdown...More
Fresh talks on the long-standing conflict over the Western Sahara are planned at the United Nations in Geneva in December, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York last week. The talks are to...More
The final votes were being cast across Afghanistan on Sunday on a second day of parliamentary elections that were marred by violence and fraught with problems that left many sites closed. The IEC had...More
Nigerian authorities declared a 24-hour curfew Sunday in Kaduna after clashes between young Christians and Muslims left at least 55 people dead. Governor Nasir El-Rufai posted a statement on Facebook...More
Afghans will return to the polls for parliamentary elections on Saturday, hoping to bring change to a corrupt government that has lost nearly half the country to the Taliban. In the eight years since...More
Mustafa el-Nagar, a former Egyptian lawmaker, went missing nearly three weeks ago and may have been detained by security forces, his wife said in a request sent to authorities seeking information...More
The Tunisian parliament has voted overwhelmingly to outlaw racial discrimination and to make criminal offenders eligible for prison time. Lawmakers passed the measure last week. The legislation was a...More
Algerian authorities on Thursday banned women from wearing full-face veils, or niqabs, at work, citing reasons of identification for the decision. The country has been split between moderate and more...More
Iran has been playing it cool as it watches the furore over the disappearance of writer Jamal Khashoggi create a crisis for its regional rival Saudi Arabia. As of Wednesday, the government had yet to...More
The father of a young midwife executed by Boko Haram has blasted the jihadists for killing his daughter, hailing on Wednesday the "immense help" she gave to her community and expressing hope for the...More
Bangladeshʹs electricity generation from renewable sources has passed the 5 percent mark with the opening of a major new solar plant – boosting hopes the country might meet its goal of getting 10...More
Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city of disputed Kashmir on Wednesday shortly after a gun battle between militants and government forces killed at least two suspected rebels and a...More
Nearly 400 Yemenis were denied refugee status by South Korea on Wednesday, months after their arrival on the resort island of Jeju triggered a populist outcry. Ethnically-homogenous South Korea...More
Police searching the Saudi Consulate found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there, a high-level Turkish official said on Tuesday and authorities appeared ready to also search the...More
This summer, Saudi Arabia promised the Trump administration $100 million for American efforts to stabilise areas in Syria liberated from the Islamic State. That money landed in American accounts on...More
A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early on Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising tensions. The...More
China on Tuesday characterised its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the "modern, civilised" world a destitute people who are easily led astray - a depiction that analysts said bore...More
Investigations into a possible terrorist background to a hostage-taking in Cologne's main station that resulted in serious injury to the hostage-taker and a teenage girl are proceeding, city police...More
Istanbul, the buzzing Turkish metropolis where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared two weeks ago, has since the Arab Spring become a hub for Arabic-language media despite Turkey's own...More
A day after jihadists missed a deadline under a demilitarisation deal for Syria's Idlib, key powerbroker Russia said the deal was still going ahead. The agreement, reached by rebel backer Turkey and...More
Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in the waters to purify their...More
A Moroccan man convicted of helping three of the September 11 attackers as they plotted to strike New York and Washington was flown from a Hamburg jail on Monday to the city's airport in preparation...More
Afghanistan is set to hold much-delayed parliamentary elections next Saturday, the first since NATO's combat mission ended in 2014. An election regarded as successful would send a strong message to...More
Protestors from across Germany marched through Berlin on Saturday against racism, xenophobia and the far right in one of the country's biggest rallies of recent years. Organisers put the turnout at...More
The United Nations and humanitarian workers on Sunday condemned an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shia rebels that reportedly killed at least 15 civilians near the port city...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country's top Muslim cleric...More
An ultra-nationalist monk – dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" – on Sunday condemned the international community for their calls to bring Myanmar's generals to justice over the Rohingya crisis...More
Israel's government on Sunday approved the construction of 31 settler homes in Hebron, the first such green light for the flashpoint West Bank city since 2002, a cabinet minister said. Construction...More
The Red Cross on Sunday appealed to Nigeria to secure the release of two abducted health workers, as a deadline set by Boko Haram to kill them approached. The International Committee of the Red Cross...More
The "sinicisation" of religion must be upheld to promote ethnic solidarity and religious harmony, a senior Chinese official has said in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, which is home to a...More
The Saudi contributor to the Washington Post who went missing more than a week ago and is feared dead had major plans, including a string of new projects to promote inclusiveness and accountability...More
Brothers Abu Eliyas and Abu Yousef have fought at opposite ends of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. One is a member of a rebel group that was once backed by the CIA. The other...More
A deadline passed on Monday without jihadists leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib, as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were...More
Omar Alnifawi was 16 when he fled Syria's civil war with his family. After four years working menial jobs in Lebanon to help pay for their journey on to Europe, he had given up on ever going back to...More
The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has hardened resistance in the U.S. Congress to selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, already a sore point for many lawmakers concerned about the...More
Egyptian authorities detained the youngest son of jailed former President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday for questioning on charges of spreading "fake news", then released him on bail. State security...More
A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel's Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday's nuptials of Tsahi...More
The Turkish government says it has audio and video recordings proving that dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was slain inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul this...More
Thousands of Syrians stranded on Jordan's border with Syria are running out of food as routes leading to their camp are closed by the Syrian army and Jordan is blocking aid deliveries, relief workers...More
Religious hardliners in Pakistan this week threatened judges and announced protests as the country awaits a Supreme Court ruling on the fate of a Christian woman who faces becoming the first person...More
Syrian Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State group hold around 900 of the organisation's foreign jihadists, a spokesman said on Thursday, a sharp increase from a previous figure. In lengthy...More
Allegations that Saudi Arabia killed a journalist inside its Istanbul consulate have forced Donald Trump into a position he never expected – raising human rights with the kingdom he has steadfastly...More
In Yassin Mohammed's sketches and paintings, he and other Egyptian prisoners are crammed into tiny cells, feet in each other's faces and their few belongings hanging from the walls. The cramped...More
The capital of China's Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and fuelling "extremism". In a...More
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