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MARRAKESH: The twentieth session of the al-Quds committee, an offshoot of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), will be held on Friday in...

MOSCOW: Iran said on Thursday that it wants to participate in the upcoming Geneva II talks on the Syrian crisis but any preconditions set...

CAIRO: The Egypt’s interior ministry has said that preliminary results of the two-day referendum on a new constitution showed that 95 percent of participants...

KABUL: A 50-year-old Colonel Jamila Bayaz has been appointed as first female district police chief in Kabul, one of the most important areas of...

KABUL: US forces have killed a number of Afghan civilians including children and injured several others in the country’s northern Parwan Province, prompting Afghan...

BAGHDAD: At least 15 persons were killed while 18 others sustained injuries when a suicide attack occurred at a funeral in the town of...

KABUL: One International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service member was killed during a shootout with the militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a statement...

NEW YORK: A lawyer for Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has filed a petition before a US judge in New York, seeking the dismissal of...

BANGKOK: Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday reiterated that she would not resign as the anti-government protesters blocked key roads in the capital...

HANGZHOU: At least 16 persons were killed when a fire broke out in a shoe factory in Wenling City of China's eastern Zhejiang Province...