Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) violently broke up a sit-in demonstration in Khartoum at dawn on Monday and the body refuses to give in to protesters' demand, weeks after the removal of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir. The TMC have rejected calls to hand

Minutes before landing in the capital of the United Kingdom, where he is due to be treated to full state honours as a guest of royalty, US President Donald Trump lashed out at the

TUNIS: Tunisia’s secular Tahya Tounes party, founded this year, elected Prime Minister Youssef Chahed as its president on Sunday, confirming expectations of his leadership months before parliamentary and presidential elections.The new party was formed

JERUSALEM: Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli police at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday as an Israeli holiday coincided with the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Muslim worshippers at

Washington is willing to speak with Iran "with no preconditions", US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday, but stressed his country would continue working to rein in what he called Iran's "malign activity".

Three explosions struck the Afghan capital, including a magnetic bomb attached to a bus carrying university students that killed at least one person, officials said. The bus explosion wounded 10 people, Nasrat Rahimi, a

LONDON: The captured widow of an Daesh group leader helped the CIA in its hunt for the organization’s elusive leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, a British daily said Friday.In an interview with The Guardian, Nisrine

BEIRUT, MOSCOW: A spike in violence in and around an opposition bastion in northwest Syria has killed 948 people in a month, almost a third of them civilians. A September deal was supposed to

Iran has been in sharp focus at the meetings in Saudi Arabia, as tensions between Tehran and Washington continue to rise. The White House is seeking support from Gulf states to back its sanctions

The Afghan Taliban is unlikely to call a ceasefire any time soon, the group's leader has indicated, even though the "doors of dialogue" with the United States to end the 18-year-long war in the