Thousands of students, university professors and health workers rallied in Algiers yesterday calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, and a new group headed by activists and opposition figures told the army not to interfere.

A Yemeni staff member of Action Against Hunger was killed by shrapnel on the roof of her home in the embattled city of Hodeida, the aid group said Tuesday.

US-backed Syrian forces said they were close to capturing Islamic State's last territorial possession in eastern Syria on Tuesday after seizing the militants' camp at Baghouz ...

The US State Department praised the role played by HH the Amir of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in reaching a solution to the Gulf crisis.

Hundreds of protesters, mostly students, took to the streets in and near Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday, continuing a three-month wave of demonstrations that has posed the most serious challenge yet to President Omar al-Bashir's three-decade rule.

An Israeli soldier was killed and two other people were wounded yesterday when a Palestinian carried out a stabbing and shooting attack near a settlement in the occupied West Bank, the army said.

At the first Qumra Talk of the Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) six-day event designed to nurture the talent of emerging filmmakers, The Black List founder and CEO Franklin Leonard on Saturday underlined the importance of bringing new and diverse voices into Hollywood and the role that his

Crowds of protesters rallied Sunday in Sudan to show solidarity with the unemployed, witnesses said, amid an economic crisis that has fuelled months of demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir's rule.

US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters yesterday as the holdout militants clung to the last dregs of their crumbling “caliphate” in eastern Syria.

US-backed forces battled Islamic State group fighters Saturday as the holdout jihadists clung to the last dregs of their crumbling "caliphate" in eastern Syria.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded on Saturday in a clash during operations into northern Iraq, Turkey's defence ministry said.

Israel said yesterday its aircraft had struck dozens of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rockets from the Palestinian enclave, including rare fire toward its economic capital Tel Aviv.