Dhaka, Bangladesh - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL) party has won Bangladesh's parliamentary election, the country's election commission has announced, after the main opposition alliance rejected the violence-marred polls. Three-hundreds seats on

Video footage leaked to Turkish media shows a Saudi hit team in Istanbul carrying bags said to contain the remains of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose killing sparked international outcry and jeopardised the

Kinshasa, DRC - An armed militia overrun several polling stations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as millions went to the polls to elect a new president. Maimai fighters attacked voting stations in six townships in

Almost three months after the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in his country's consulate in Istanbul, a new book reveals further details about the murder, the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reported. Titled "Diplomatic

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has authorised Iraqi forces to attack ISIL targets inside his country without waiting for permission from authorities in Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA said. The development comes as the

An Afghan official said that presidential elections, which were originally scheduled for coming April, will be held on July 20 next year. The polls were postponed to allow time to fix technical problems that

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the "daughter of democracy" to her supporters and an authoritarian to her critics. She has been in and out of power for decades in her country and she is

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a third consecutive term in office in an election contested by the opposition. The leader of the Jatiya Oikya Front - the main opposition alliance - dubbed

Israel says it has filed a complaint to Jordan over a picture of a Jordanian government minister stepping on an image of the Israeli flag. Jumana Ghuneimat, minister of state for information, was pictured

Fifteen people suspected of links to the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains have appeared before a judge in Morocco. The attorney general's office in Rabat said in a statement on