International

Polls have closed in Sudan’s presidential and parliamentary elections after four days of voting, with President Omar al-Bashir and his party assured to win.

Most of the opposition have…

In an article published in Lobelog in April 15, Fatemeh Aman wrote, tensions are on the rise between Pakistan and its Arab allies over Pakistan’s refusal to take sides in the Yemen crisis.

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday imposed an arms embargo targeting the Houthi rebels who rule most of Yemen and blacklisted the son of the country’s former president and a Houthi…

President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House says.

The move comes amid a normalization of relations between the US and Cuba, BBC…

The Islamic State group launched an offensive in Iraq’s western Anbar province on Wednesday, capturing three villages near the provincial capital of Ramadi, where fierce clashes were underway…

A meeting of G7 foreign ministers in the German city of Lubeck got down to business yesterday focusing on world conflicts, Euronews reported.

Those taking part represent the world…

Israeli security forces arrested 29 Hamas activists overnight during a major sweep in the northern West Bank, the army said on Wednesday, AFP reported.

A Palestinian security source…

Hundreds of protesters have rallied in New York against recent killings across the country involving police. A group of more than 350 demonstrators gathered in Manhattan’s Union Square on Tuesday…

Moscow is prepared to cooperate with Afghanistan to normalize the situation in the country as well as work with Kabul and international partners in the…

If US President Barack Obama was correct when he declared that his meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro in Panama City last weekend marked the end of the Cold War, we should get ready for a…

The UN Security Council was due to vote last night on a resolution to blacklist the son of Yemen's former president and a Houthi leader and effectively impose an arms embargo on the rebels who…

More than 50 of the girls abducted by militant Islamists in Nigeria last year were seen alive three weeks ago, BBC quoted a woman as saying on Tuesday.

She saw the girls in the north-…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and President Barack Obama were scheduled to discuss the fight against Islamic State on Tuesday at a White House meeting likely to be dominated…

The northern Palestinian village of Kafr Kanna went on a general strike Monday after Israeli authorities razed the home of an Arab citizen under the pretext of having been built without a license…

Turkey on Tuesday deported nine Britons, including the son of a local councilor, two weeks after arresting them for attempting to cross into Syria to join jihadists, the official news agency said…

The domestic crisis in Yemen, once quite containable, now bids to veer out of control as external players threaten to exacerbate an explosive situation. Apart from their rhetorical statements,…

The Moroccan Embassy in Tripoli has been damaged by a bomb explosion that took place shortly after unknown gunmen assaulted the South Korean mission in the Libyan capital,…

A government official in northeast Afghanistan says a major Taliban attack killed 18 Afghan soldiers days ago and saw the extremists behead some of the troops. Ahmad Nawid Froutan, a spokesman for…

Indonesia wants to hold regular military exercises with the United States near the sparsely populated Natuna archipelago, an area of the South China Sea near …

Saudi-led warplanes hit rebel positions in southern Yemen Monday including the rebel-held presidential palace in Aden as gunfire killed five people in the port city, medics and residents said, AFP…

Hillary Clinton embarked on an extraordinary campaign road trip Sunday after launching her bid to become the first woman to win the White House with a pledge to champion “everyday Americans.”

China has signed a contract with the Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport for the purchase of the S-400 air defense systems, the company’s chief executive Anatoly Isaikin…

Anti-government protesters took to the streets of virtually every Brazilian state on Sunday to protest against corruption, a slowing economy and to call for the removal of President Dilma Rousseff…

President Obama is tiptoeing around the sensitivities of Israel and Saudi Arabia as he depicts the Iran-nuclear deal as a one-off affair. But broader cooperation with Iran may be vital to salvage…

The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Saturday launched a series of suicide attacks on Iraq's largest oil refinery, a senior army officer said.