INCHEON: Pakistan women’s cricket team qualified for playing the final in the 2014 Asian Games when it defeated China by nine wickets here on Thursday. China gave Pakistan a target of mere 37 runs (run rate of 1.95) which Pakistan … read more
CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reached a “comprehensive” agreement Thursday for the return of their unity government in Gaza after two days of talks in Cairo, negotiators from both sides said. The Palestinian rivals had set up a … read more
NEW YORK: Osama bin Laden´s son-in-law and former Al-Qaeda spokesman was jailed for life on Tuesday after a US judge warned he remained a deadly threat to American citizens. Kuwaiti national Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, 48, was handed the sentence after … read more
BEIRUT: Syrian government air strikes killed at least 42 people, including 16 children, in Idlib province in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The air raids on Sunday afternoon and evening killed 19 people, including … read more
ANKARA: More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State terrorists, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. “The number of Syrians has passed 130,000,” he told reporters in … read more