MOSCOW: Russia said it deployed its new frigate with long-range Kalibr cruise missiles to the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, a few months after Moscow had reinforced its naval forces off Syrian cost.“The Black Sea

TEHRAN: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said there will be additional US sanctions on Iran after the Trump administration on Monday re-imposed oil and economic sanctions, but gave no other details.“We’re going to

DUBAI: Regional observers will watch the midterm elections in the US on Tuesday with added interest because of two separate, but pivotal, issues: Republican losses could alter the country’s hard-line foreign policy, especially toward

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said he regrets the continuation of conflict with other Arab states, but added that "crises will pass", outlining the nation's economic achievements over the past year.

China's mass detention of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil liberties will likely figure high on the agenda on Tuesday when countries meet at the UN in Geneva to review Beijing's rights record.

China's spending on security-related construction in Xinjiang jumped in 2017 even as funds put towards vocational training declined amid claims the country is holding as many as one million ethnic Uighur in internment camps.

With midterms less than a day away, right-wing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's seven-year grip on the state could be slipping away. Walker and his opponent, Democrat Tony Evers, were neck-and-neck in the closely-watched gubernatorial

Thousands of Yemeni civilians are trapped on the southern outskirts of the Red Sea port of Hodeidah as forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition battle Houthi fighters entrenched in the city, aid groups said.

TEHRAN: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said there will be additional US sanctions on Iran after the Trump administration on Monday re-imposed oil and economic sanctions, but gave no other details.“We’re going to

BAGHDAD: Explosions in several Shiite-majority districts in Iraq’s capital late Sunday killed six people, most of them civilians, and wounded several others, police and medical sources said.In northern Baghdad’s Aden roundabout area, two civilians