TUNIS: Efforts to rescue Tunisia’s ailing economy face the prospect of fresh turmoil after the president declared his alliance with the Ennahda party at an end, deepening divisions in a fragile coalition managing the

SARAQIB, Syria: Turkish troop reinforcements entered Syria’s rebel bastion of Idlib on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a week after a deal between Ankara and Moscow averted a government offensive.Around 35 military vehicles traveled

World leaders have descended on New York to take part in the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly.  The Iran nuclear deal, a response to the Rohingya crisis, and the future of the

Tehran, Iran - This time last year, to buy one American dollar cost you 38,000 Iranian riyals. When President Hassan Rouhani's plane hit the tarmac in New York City on Sunday night, that number

Oil prices hit a four-year high of $82.01 a barrel on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia and Russia appeared to reject calls from the US to increase production amid looming sanctions against Iranian oil. Brent

Europe's increasingly hardline refugee policy is raising concerns about the transparency of search and rescue in the Mediterranean, now that all vessels operated by aid organisations have been put out of action. Panamanian authorities

Africa seems to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. People around the world associate the continent with extreme poverty, hunger, drought, civil wars and terrorism. Generations of politicians, activists and development experts have

GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has persevered through extraordinary

GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has persevered through extraordinary

US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is overseeing the investigation into alleged Russian interference during the 2016 election. Last week, the New York Times reported he had been looking at ways to secretly record