Middle East

DAMASCUS: At least 1,62,000 people including at least 54,000 civilians have been killed in the ongoing three-year-old conflict in Syria, the British-based Syrian Observatory...

AMMAN: Around 24 countries will take part in the annual Eager Lion wargames in Jordan, aimed at tackling terrorism and insurrection and to prepare...

DAMASCUS: The foreign-backed militants have destroyed the tomb of Hazrat Uwais al-Qarani in the Syrian city of Raqqa on Thursday, Iranian media reported.The al-Qaeda-linked...

RIYADH: The death toll in Saudi Arabia from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has reached to 157 after five more persons including...

NEW YORK: The UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is to step down on May 31 over an international deadlock to end...

RIYADH: The Saudi foreign minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Tuesday that an invitation has been sent to the Iranian foreign minister to visit the...

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi people are casting their votes on Wednesday in the country’s first parliamentary elections since the 2011 withdrawal of US forces.It is...

Riyadh: Saudi Military Exercises “Sword of Abdullah” are concluding today. This is biggest ground exercise of Saudi Army and a large number of military experts...

RAWALPINDI: The army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Monday left for Saudi Arabia on a two-day official visit to witness Saudi Military Exercise “Sword...