Middle East

BAGHDAD: More than 50 people were killed in a series of explosions in markets and shopping areas in mainly Shi’ite neighborhoods across Baghdad on...

Dubai: SKAI Holdings, the Dubai-based real estate investment firm, today unveiled plans for its new US$1billion hotel and furnished residences project on the Palm...

Washington: The Obama administration has added four Syrian government ministers to a US terror blacklist as well as the leader of an al Qaeda-linked...

KIRKUK: At least 14 people were killed while 23 others were injured in a series of bombings including two car bombs and a roadside...

Tehran: Iran's presidential election received a surprise on Saturday when Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, registered as a candidate.  The Dispatch News Desk reports.Rafsanjani, who...

New York: Israel has reportedly conducted an airstrike into Syrian territory in a bid to halt the flow of arms into Lebanon, according to several...

Baghdad: Southern and central Iraq were rocked Monday by car bomb explosions that killed at least 22 people and fueled fears that the country...

Cairo: The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday refused an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and decided to keep him in prison pending investigations...

DAMASCUS: The Free Syrian Army says Israeli air force jets flew over President Bashar Assad's palace and bombed a suspected chemical weapons site near...

Tel Aviv: Israel says one of its fighter jets has shot down an unmanned aircraft sent from Lebanon into Israeli airspace.The Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported.A...