WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump wanted to have Syrian President Bashar Assad assassinated last year after a chemical attack on civilians, according to a new book. The revelation appears in excerpts of the book “Fear”,

JERUSALEM: Al Qaeda is trying to regain its primacy over international militancy as Daesh loses ground, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday, seeing a potentially increased risk to the West from the groups’

Two Armenian children, who have spent a decade growing up in the Netherlands, are set to be deported to Armenia after they came out of their hiding and reported to the authorities. Dutch officials on Tuesday

Argentine officials arrived in Washington, DC on Tuesday for crisis talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to renegotiate conditions of a $50bn loan to help its ailing economy. Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne is

Mutuati, Kenya - On a bitterly cold night in July 2014, Morris Nkonja grabbed his machete and set out along a muddy path off the main road in Mutuati, a hilly village in Meru, central Kenya. 

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has accepted a one-year prison sentence as part of a deal to settle a Spanish tax evasion case, El Mundo newspaper reported on Tuesday. Mourinho is unlikely to serve

At least nine people have been reported dead and more than 300 injured as Typhoon Jebi - the strongest in 25 years - pummelled Japan. The reports on Tuesday came after the Japanese government issued evacuation advisories

BEIRUT: A Lebanese man demonstrating outside the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs in Beirut inflicted cuts on his body in protest against his “bad living situation.” The man, in his 60s, sat in front of

BEIRUT: A Lebanese man demonstrating outside the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs in Beirut inflicted cuts on his body in protest against his “bad living situation.” The man, in his 60s, sat in front of

BAGHDAD: Six demonstrators were shot dead and many others wounded when armed protesters stormed a local government building in Basra on Tuesday. Security forces responded by firing live bullets and tear gas, police and medical sources