DUBAI: Arab women will play an important role in the pursuit of tolerance in the region, as more of them find roles in the education sector, a senior official at the Organization of Arab

North Korea has maintained its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes and is looking for ways to ensure those capabilities cannot be destroyed by any military strikes, according to a confidential report by United Nations

Senators from across party lines in the United States have backed an amendment opposing Donald Trump's plan to pull troops out of Syria and Afghanistan, in a strong rebuke of the Republican president's decision.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - On a March evening in 2017, Sorn Chanty was returning home from beauty school in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, when a man ran at her, grabbed her bag and threw acid in

The US State Department has said Washington's special envoy for North Korea would head to Pyongyang on Wednesday to hold preparatory talks for a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam met with his Cabinet on Monday amid a chorus of calls from fellow Democrats to resign over last week's revelation of a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook

KARBALA: The recent assassination of a writer in the middle of a street in Karbala has provoked indignation in Iraqi cultural circles. The city’s police force said several fatal shots were fired at Alaa

KARBALA: The recent assassination of a writer in the middle of a street in Karbala has provoked indignation in Iraqi cultural circles. The city’s police force said several fatal shots were fired at Alaa

ABU DHABI: He may have arrived at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in a Kia, but surely even this most humble of pontiffs could not fail to have been impressed by Abu Dhabi’s crowning architectural

US President Donald Trump said on Monday will nominate David Bernhardt, a former fossil fuel lobbyist, to be secretary of the interior, the department tasked with administering and conserving federal lands.  Bernhardt, currently the acting secretary