QAMISHLI: Syrian Kurds have announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, to return from camps in northeastern Syria to Iraq. Tens of thousands of people live in the

TRIPOLI, GENEVA: They trekked through the Sahara in hope of crossing the Mediterranean to a better life in Europe — but instead ended up in squalid detention centers and are now engulfed by war.

Unidentified gunmen abducted two Cuban doctors and shot dead a police officer near Kenya's border with Somalia, Kenyan media reported on Friday. The Daily Nation said the attackers drove off with the doctors, who

Islamabad, Pakistan - At least 20 people have been killed and another 40 wounded as an explosion ripped through a market in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, a provincial official says, the latest

KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir is now under ‘house arrest’ after being forced to step down on Thursday, reports say. The head of Sudan’s main opposition party said Bashir was under house arrest along

AMMAN: Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory in Israeli elections have caused irreparable damage to a two-state solution, analysts have told Arab News. Saeb Erekat, secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee, said the election results

Voters in India begin casting their ballots on Thursday in the world's biggest election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a second term. But results will be a long-time coming, with voting spread over

In April 2018, protests against pension reform plans in Nicaragua quickly mushroomed into a widespread anti-government movement. The country's Sandinista regime under President Daniel Ortega cracked down hard. Over the following year, hundreds were

SAN FRANCISCO: Home-sharing platform Airbnb on Tuesday announced it will back off a plan to remove Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank from its rental listings to end lawsuits brought by hosts.The

CAIRO: Syrian refugee Ahmad Al-Khatib and his 16-year-old son both work as tuk-tuk drivers in Cairo, but it is not enough to pay the bills.Tough economic reforms and rising costs have hit refugees and