Shahidul Alam, an award-wining photographer and activist in Bangladesh, has been released from jail on bail after spending more than 100 days behind bars. Authorities had said the 63-year old had made "provocative" statements during an interview

Below is the full statement by United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Statement from President Donald J Trump on Standing with Saudi Arabia The world is a very dangerous

BAGHDAD: Iraq launched an air strike on an Daesh target inside neighboring Syria on Tuesday, its military said on Monday.F-16 fighter jets destroyed a building where members of the ultra-hard-line Sunni militant group were

TEHRAN: Iran is reintroducing fuel cards that will cap petrol purchases in a bid to combat rampant smuggling, state media reported on Tuesday.Smuggling has boomed in recent months as the rial has plummeted against

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced a new initiative in Yemen to address the humanitarian situation in the country, including an additional $500 million aid program. The new initiative

Dozens of people have been killed in a powerful suicide bomb blast that targeted a large gathering of top religious figures in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, according to officials. Wahid Majroh, health ministry spokesperson, said Tuesday's

Two aid groups operating a rescue ship in the Mediterranean have strongly condemned a decision by Italy to order its seizure, rejecting an accusation that the vessel was being used to illegally dump toxic waste at ports in

A lawyer of Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish opposition politician in  Turkey, has applied for his release, shortly after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that his pre-trial imprisonment was "unjustified" and urged his

"Oh what a tangled web we weave/when first we practice to deceive," are lines often attributed to Shakespeare that were, in fact, written in 1808 by the great Scottish bard Sir Walter Scott. But

Spain has said that it will vote against a deal agreed between London and Brussels for Britain's departure from the bloc, or Brexit, if it does not guarantee Madrid's veto over Gibraltar's future status.