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Rebel fighters pray before they are evacuated outside Harasta in eastern Ghouta, in Damascus. (Photo: AFP)

Last rebel fighters in Ghouta to surrender, make peace with Syrian...

The Syrian army last week warned the insurgents to surrender or face a military assault to drive them out.

1 April 2018 7:09 PM IST

The site of an archaeological discovery north of the city of Sakaka in Saudi Arabias northwestern Al-Jouf province, with a carved sculpture of a camels legs seen in the foreground. (Photo: AFP)

Rock art and mystery: Ancient camel sculptures in Saudi desert

Camels for centuries venerated as the ship of the desert are a familiar motif in artworks from the kingdom.

28 Feb 2018 12:40 AM IST

More than 1,300 women and children surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga in August after government forces expelled the jihadist group from the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. (Representational Image)

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for ties with...

Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children.

26 Feb 2018 3:39 PM IST

After the council vote Saturday, Syrian warplanes backed by Russian air power launched new raids on a town in Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo: AFP)

Hell on Earth: 500 deaths later, UN calls for ceasefire amid E Ghouta...

A young woman amputated from the knee breastfed a 40-day-old infant who had lost his entire family in the bombings.

25 Feb 2018 2:29 PM IST

A Syrian civil defence member carries an injured child rescued following government bombings in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, on the outskirts of Damascus, on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

Assad regime bombs villages, towns, kills 127 civilians in 1 day

Held by rebels since 2012, Eastern Ghouta is the last opposition pocket around Damascus and President Assad is keen to...

21 Feb 2018 1:27 AM IST

The policy change, announced by the Saudi government on Thursday, also marks a major step away from the strict guardianship system that has ruled the country for decades. (Photo: Representational | AFP)

Saudi women now can open their own business without male permission

Saudi Arabia is pushing to expand country's private sector, including expansion of female employment under a reform plan...

19 Feb 2018 9:24 AM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu brandished a rectangular piece of dark green metal which he called a piece of that Iranian drone, or whats left of it, after we shot it down. (Photo: File)

Do not test our resolve: Netanyahu to Iran's smooth-talking foreign...

During the strikes, one of Israels F-16 fighter jets was shot down, believed to be the first loss of an Israeli plane in...

18 Feb 2018 5:56 PM IST

A Pakistan villager stands at the site of plane crash as investigation is in progress in Gug near Havelian, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (Photo: AP/File)

Plane with 66 aboard crashes in central Iran, all feared dead

The report identified the plane as an ATR-72. It said the plane was flying from Tehran to the southern Iranian city of...

18 Feb 2018 1:37 PM IST

In November, Netanyahu signalled that Israel would take military action in Syria when it sees fit as it seeks to ensure Iran-backed forces stay away from its territory. (Photo: File)

Bibi: Charges like Swiss cheese, full of holes

Netanyahu shrugs off graft charges, says won't resign.

15 Feb 2018 2:12 AM IST

Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists. (Photo: File)

West used 'lizards' to spy on Iran's nuke programme: Ayatollah...

'The West had often used tourists, scientists and environmentalists to spy on Iran.'

14 Feb 2018 4:29 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman. (Photo: PTI)

India, Oman call for isolating sponsors of terror

Both sides underlined the importance of coordinated efforts to disrupt terrorist networks, their financing and movement.

13 Feb 2018 6:38 AM IST

The main entrance of the Ritz Carlton hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh following its reopening for business, three months after it became a holding place for princes and ministers detained in the biggest anti-graft purge of the kingdoms elite in its modern history. (Photo: AFP)

A night at the Ritz: Riyadh 5-star prison' is now back in business

It was impossible to know whether a detainee had stayed there or the room had been refurbished.

13 Feb 2018 5:00 AM IST