(CNN)A British-Iranian woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran since 2016 on spying charges returned to prison on Sunday, just three days after she was temporarily released.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe went back to prison voluntarily so
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CAIRO: Daesh on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in northern Sinai, the group’s Amaq news agency reported, saying 15 soldiers were killed or wounded in what it described
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TEHRAN: Iran's parliament impeached Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian on Sunday in the latest blow to embattled President Hassan Rouhani as he struggles to face down a mounting economic crisis.Karbasian is the second cabinet minister to
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DAMASCUS: Iran's defense minister arrived in Syria on Sunday for talks on boosting cooperation and is expected to meet with President Bashar Al-Assad, state media reported.Iran has provided key support to Assad in the
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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has rejected resignations tendered by three senior officials. The resignations from Defence Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami and Interior Minister Wais Barmak, as well as Masoom Stanekzai, head of the National Directorate of Security, were
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Community activists in the United States are marking 50 years since the infamous Chicago riots. In 1968, a 10,000-strong protest against the war in Vietnam turned into a day of violence with police. Amid
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Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was removed from power. The Constitutional Court confirmed Mnangagwa's election victory
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Tropical Storm Lane will go down in Hawaii's history as one that made it into several top five categories in terms of strength and amount of rainfall. Lane formed as a tropical storm in
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Kabul, Afghanistan - Late in May, 26-year-old truck driver Bilal Hakim was travelling along his regular route through Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan to Kunduz. He had taken the journey with the same cargo - a
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The US has no royalty but the late US Senator John McCain was born into the closest thing the country has to an aristocracy. He began life in 1936 at a US naval base
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