Taliban fighters have attacked Ghazni, Afghanistan's eastern provincial capital, leaving dead and wounded before Afghan forces pushed them out of the city, officials said. The attack on Ghazni city began overnight on Friday. Within hours,

Swedish flat pack furniture giant Ikea has opened its first store in India, drawing huge crowds and bringing traffic to a standstill. The opening ceremony in the city of Hyderabad on Thursday was attended

GAZA CITY: Gaza militants halted fire Thursday after targeting Israel with some 180 rockets and mortars, provoking Israeli strikes across the enclave that killed three Palestinians, including a toddler, in another severe flare-up of

AMMAN: Jordan warned on Wednesday that a severe financial shortfall facing a United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees could have a “catastrophic” impact on the lives of millions of refugees in the region.

BEIRUT: Syria’s civil registries recorded 68,000 deaths in the war-torn country in 2017, pro-regime daily Al-Watan reported its head as saying Thursday.“Last year, we confirmed 68,000 without specifying the nature of their death and

SARAQEB: Syrian regime forces shelled rebel and extremist positions in the northwestern province of Idlib on Thursday and dropped leaflets warning of an impending assault.The province is the largest chunk of territory still in

BAGHDAD:  Muqtada Al-Sadr  threatened to give up his pursuit of a governing coalition on Thursday, raising further doubts about the country’s political stability. The influential cleric was the biggest winner in parliamentary elections in

GAZA CITY: Gaza militants halted fire Thursday after targeting Israel with some 180 rockets and mortars, provoking Israeli strikes across the enclave that killed three Palestinians, including a toddler, in another severe flare-up of

A British-Bangladeshi citizen has been released from prison in Bangladesh after being held for two years over suspicion of involvement in a major restaurant attack in the capital, Dhaka. The Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal on Wednesday cleared Hasnat Karim

The Trump administration unveiled a proposal in July that would strip the Endangered Species Act of some of its provisions. Conservationists say this move would weaken a law enacted 45 years ago to keep