GENEVA: More than six million children affected by the Syria conflict desperately need humanitarian aid, the UN s children s agency said Friday, with the number in need rising by a third in a year. UNICEF is warning that despite … read more
DUBAI: Saudi-owned al-Arabia television said on Saturday that two suspected al Qaeda militants who had been surrounded inside a government building in southern Saudi Arabia after an attack on a border post with Yemen blew themselves up early on Saturday. … read more
KHARTOUM: A battle between rival Sudanese clans near an oil-drilling site killed 150 people and wounded 100 more, state-linked media reported on Thursday. The fighting in West Kordofan state between two sub-groups of the Misseriya tribe “continued all day because … read more
ISLAMABAD: The United States National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a violation of international law, said Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam. During the weekly Foreign Office briefing, Aslam raised the NSA spying issue and lodged … read more
KABUL: Taliban insurgents fired rockets into Kabul international airport on Thursday, setting a hanger ablaze but no casualties were reported, officials said, in an attack that underlined security fears in the Afghan capital. The rockets landed on the military side … read more