A senior Saudi policy adviser on Wednesday condemned a US bill that would allow families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the kingdom for damages, warning it would stoke instability and extremism.
The head of Libya's UN-backed unity government called for urgent talks Wednesday after forces loyal to a rival administration seized the main eastern oil ports in defiance of world powers.
Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, the last of Israel's founding fathers, was in critical condition Wednesday after suffering a major stroke and doctors were treating him in intensive care.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, has reaffirmed his country’s rejection of the exploitation of the Haj season to serve political agendas or intensify ideological differences.
More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, a monitor said in a new toll yesterday, the first full day of an internationally-brokered truce.
The weekend’s attacks against oil terminals in Libya have been condemned by France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the United States in a joint statement.
Pilgrims throwing pebbles at pillars during the Jamarat ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina. More than 1.8mn faithful from around the world have been attending the annual pilgrimage which officially ends tomorrow.
Syrian children played under quiet skies yesterday as a fragile truce held, but their parents were waiting for much-needed food, fuel and medicine to enter the country’s besieged areas.
Syria's government on Tuesday warned that all aid going to the divided city of Aleppo, particularly assistance sent by Turkey, must be coordinated with Damascus and the United Nations.
A ceasefire brokered by Russia and the United States took effect in Syria at sundown yesterday, despite scepticism over how long the truce in the five-year conflict would hold.
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11:56 AM - 21 July 2015