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HOMS: At least 40 persons were killed and 120 others injured in a blast that occurred in an ammunition depot in Syria’s western city...

MOSCOW: Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday left the Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after he was granted one year temporary asylum...

BAKU: The direct talks between Israel and Palestine will resume after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which ends on August 11, Palestinian Foreign...

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Thursday banned the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party from contesting future polls in a landmark ruling, leaving the once-most powerful fundamentalist...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States have announced resumption of their strategic dialogue to further deepen their partnership in various fields.This was announced by...

HARARE: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has defeated Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangirai in the African country’s presidential elections held on Wednesday, a senior source in...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his newly-elected Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani for the first time in Kyrgyzstan in September, the Iranian ambassador to...

DAMASCUS: About 200 Kurdish civilians have been taken hostage by foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Syria following violent clashes in two villages in the country’s...

HARARE: Zimbabwean presidential elections are being held on Wednesday (today) across the African country, the incumbent President Robert Mugabe,89, is running for a seventh...

WASHINGTON: The US intelligence community plans to declassify information about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, in a “deliberate” effort to provide the public...