Monthly Archive:: June 2015

The northern city of Manbij is one of the last remaining flashpoints in Syria's war And yet another example of the complicated Syrian jigsaw puzzle. It was under

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Millions of Bangladeshis are set to vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by rights bodies over "restrictive electoral environment". Voting will start at

A coalition of professional associations in Sudan has again called for a march on the eve of the country's 63rd anniversary of independence to demand that President Omar

CAIRO: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that security forces killed 40 militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, a day after a bombing on a

Yemen's Houthi rebels have started to redeploy inside the port city of Hodeidah as part of the United Nations-sponsored peace agreement signed in Sweden earlier this month, a

The two-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council

Bangladesh's telecoms regulator has ordered mobile operators to shut down high-speed mobile internet services until midnight Sunday, the day of a national election. The measure is effective immediately, a spokesman for the Bangladesh Telecommunication

A new small arms survey has estimated that there are 750,000 pistols and rifles in private hands in Kenya, more than the police and military combined. Experts say

JERUSALEM: An Israeli aircraft hit a Hamas position in the Gaza Strip late on Friday in response to the first fire from the territory since a November flare-up,

DUBAI: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that security forces killed 40 militants in Giza and North Sinai. Large quantities of weapons and explosives were found during the

US commanders planning for the withdrawal of troops from Syria have recommended that Kurdish fighters be permitted to keep US-supplied weapons, a move that would incense NATO ally Turkey.

BAGHDAD: Thousands of followers of Muqtada Al-Sadr gathered on a recent Friday evening in central Baghdad to show their support for the powerful Shiite cleric.  Al-Sadr has become

Officials have scrapped the use of wet bulb globe temperature readings for next month's Australian Open which should result in more matches suspended or delayed by Melbourne's notoriously

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday triggering a tsunami warning, with small waves expected to hit southern parts of the country and