Middle East

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against US military intervention in Syria without UN Security Council authorization, saying that such an action would...

NEW YORK: The UN Security Council’s five permanent members on Wednesday held a closed-door session in New York City to discuss the Russia’s proposed...

BAGHDAD: At least 30 persons were killed and 55 others injured after a bomb went off outside a Shia mosque in the Waziriyah neighborhood...

ABU DHABI: A top United Arab Emirates court on Wednesday awarded three-year jail term to a Pakistani driver at a foreign embassy in the...

CAIRO: Two bomb blasts went off simultaneously in Egyptian border town of Sinai on Wednesday, killing at least four persons, officials said.In the first...

MOSCOW: Russia has provided evidence to the UN Security Council against foreign-backed militants in Syria as they used chemical weapons near Aleppo in March,...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has said that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Syrian...

DAMASCUS: The Syrian government has agreed to Russian proposal asking Damascus to hand over its chemical arsenal to international control in a bid to...

ST. PETERSBURG: Leaders of the group of twenty (G20) failed to reach a consensus on military strikes in Syria at the end of the...