TUNIS, Tunisia: A jailed media magnate and an independent outsider appeared likely to face off in Tunisia’s presidential runoff, after a roller coaster first-round race in the country that unleashed the Arab Spring pro-democracy

KABUL: Afghan forces backed by US forces killed two senior Taliban leaders and at least 38 fighters of the hard-line insurgent group in joint airstrikes conducted in northern and western regions of Afghanistan, officials

Tensions in the Middle East have escalated following drone attacks on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. The pre-dawn strikes on Saturday knocked out more than half of crude output from the world's top exporter -

Idlib province, where a ceasefire is now in effect, is Syria's last rebel-held stronghold. A four-month offensive in Idlib by forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has caused a massive outflow of refugees to

Embattled Israeli PM fights for survival in do-over election Updated 17 min 15 sec ago September 15, 2019 06:15 JERUSALEM: A visibly frantic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political

JERUSALEM: A visibly frantic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life as the country heads to national elections for the second time this year.With Netanyahu locked in a razor

Voters in Tunisia are casting their ballots in the country's hotly contested presidential election. It is the second presidential vote since longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was removed during the revolution in

A battle is under way for the survival of the largest native forest in East Africa. Since the British colonial period in Kenya, swaths of the Mau Forest have been cleared for plantations and environmentalists

For more than four years, Yemen has been ravaged by a war between the Houthi rebels and the internationally recognised government backed by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The

It has been a year since the former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan became Pakistan's prime minister. Khan's campaign slogan was "Naya Pakistan" or "New Pakistan", a reflection of his promises to turn the county's economy