At least five people have died in severe rain and snowstorms that blanketed parts of California with at least five feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week, and triggered flooding and

LONDON: A former Houthi air force commander has been killed in Sanaa after the Arab coalition launched an intelligence operation, Al Arabiya reported. Major General Ibrahim Al-Shami, who ranked number 19 on the Arab coalition's most

DAMASCUS: The new UN envoy to Syria ended his first visit to the war-torn country Thursday, stressing the need for a UN-brokered political solution to the eight-year conflict.Geir Pedersen, a seasoned Norwegian diplomat, concluded

ALEXANDRIA: Egypt reopened five ports on Thursday that it had shut due to bad weather as conditions improved and winds stabilized, the Red Sea Ports Authority said. Several Egyptian port cities and the capital Cairo

US President Donald Trump told House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that her trip to Belgium, Egypt and Afghanistan had been postponed over the partial government shutdown that has run into its

Protests broke out in several Sudanese cities on Thursday in some of the most widespread disturbances since unrest began on December 19. The capital, Khartoum, witnessed pitched battles between police and demonstrators, witnesses said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for stability in the Balkans during his visit to Serbia in a show of support for the country's populist leader and his pro-Moscow policies. After arriving to a

Police in a Phoenix suburb have said that an officer shot dead a 14-year-old boy whose airsoft gun was mistaken as a real firearm during a suspected burglary.  In a press release, the Tempe

Washington, DC - American civil rights groups have condemned the appointment of a new deputy national security advisor who served on the board of an anti-Muslim group for nearly a decade. US President Donald

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army intelligence have detained a man on suspicion that he crossed into Lebanon from Israel, a military official said Thursday. The country’s state news agency said the detainee is a US citizen.Lebanon