More than 100 migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean after their rubber boat heading to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya. Independent rescue groups said 130 people ar... Read more

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital. Among the dead were at least 28 patients on ventila... Read more

The Armenians of the Ottoman Empire experienced calamity of the greatest degree during World War I. Many males, including young men and boys, were executed outright, whilst women, children a... Read more

Internal and external forces have been threatening Ethiopia’s stability and seeking to plunge it into chaos, said the country’s National Security Council on Saturday, without naming them. Ch... Read more

Iranian hardliners in the parliament have indicated that they will block a possible settlement in negotiations aimed at resuming the 2015 nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehens... Read more

A Tunisian man who stabbed to death a police employee in France in a suspected attack was depressed and not devout, relatives said Saturday, expressing shock and disbelief. They identified h... Read more

Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot dead three militants and dismantled their cell in eastern Iran near the border with Afghanistan, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agenc... Read more

By the mid-1990s, it was clear to the world that Somalia had become Africa’s first failed post-colonial state . But this vast country of just 10 million people had had a glorious histo... Read more

The bodies of the two brothers were left for more than a day. Their families knew they were there, but the soldiers wouldn’t let them collect the bodies. The soldiers left behind witnesses,... Read more

The US State Department welcomed on Thursday the historic decision by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in response to Bashar Assad’s regime’s continued use and... Read more

Compelling evidence has surfaced that now suggests the shooting down of Ukrainian Flight 752 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in January 2020 was in no way an error but a pre... Read more

Indonesia’s navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open, killing 53 crew members aboard, after finding items from the vessel over the past two days. Military ch... Read more

Nahla Abdelmonem The Islamic State group is keen on staging attacks that cause maximum loss of life, in its bid to threaten the economies of states. This is why the group’s attacks aga... Read more