GAZA CITY: Israel launched an airstrike in southern Gaza on Wednesday and killed a Hamas man. Palestinian medical sources said Tayseer Al-Ismary, 33, was killed “as a result of gunfire and shrapnel from a tank shell” in the incident east of the southern city of Khan Yunis. Hamas sources said h

(Reuters) - Five bombs exploded on Tuesday in Sanaa's old quarter, where many supporters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement live, killing a member of the group and wounding another person, a senior security official said. One of the bombs was placed near the home of Ismail al-Wazir, a professo

Beji Caid Essebsi has won Tunisia's first free presidential election, beating rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote, official results show. Marzouki secured 44.32 percent of the vote, Tunisia's High Electoral Commission said on Monday. In a Facebook post, Marzouki co

New York: Two police officers sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn were shot at point-blank range and killed on Saturday afternoon by a man who, officials said, had traveled to the city from Baltimore vowing to kill officers. The suspect then committed suicide with the same gun, the authorities s

Israeli aircraft have bombed a site in Gaza, in the first such action since the declaration of a truce in August. The air strike was carried out on a Hamas facility in response to a rocket fired earlier from Gaza, a statement from the Israeli military said. Residents of the Khan Yunis area in Ga

PESHAWAR: Pakistani security forces killed more than 50 suspected militants on Friday as operations against insurgents intensify in the wake of a Taleban school massacre that killed 149 people. The bloody rampage in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday brought international condemnation a

The European Union’s second highest court has ordered the removal of the Islamist group Hamas from a terrorist blacklist, citing procedural problems with the listing. It added, however, that the group’s assets should remain frozen for three months pending an almost certain appeal. The decision ca

Israel has been hammered by a series of diplomatic rebuffs across Europe after the European parliament voted overwhelmingly for qualified recognition of the Palestinian state. The vote on Wednesday came on the same day as a meeting of signatories to the Geneva conventions warned that Israel must

(Reuters) - An Egyptian prosecutor on Monday referred to a military court at least 339 alleged supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, including four top leaders, judicial sources said, as the state expands a crackdown against political opponents. Egypt expanded the jurisdiction of military

A Palestinian has been killed overnight during an Israeli military operation in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank, medical and security sources say. The 21-year-old man was killed when troops entered the camp to make an arrest, prompting clashes with residents, sources sai

At least 142 people, including 132 children, have been killed in an attack by Pakistani Taliban fighters (TTP) on a military-run school in Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest. Explosions and gunfire rang out as seven armed men attacked the Army Public School on Tuesday morning, in one the bloodiest

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces challenges from allies and rivals to confront a rising tide of anti-immigrant sentiment driving increasingly popular anti-Islam marches in the city of Dresden every Monday. With thousands expected at the next march, Merkel is in a dilemma. Her securit

CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor referred 439 people to military tribunals on Saturday for acts of violence including the killing of three policemen last year. Security officials said that one group was 139 men he described as hard-liners from the southern province of Minya, while another was compri

At least 18 people have died and more than 90 are missing after a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java. Heavy rain caused the landslide near Jemblung village in central Java. Rescuers are searching for survivors but a lack of heavy equipment left many forced to dig with their bare hands

France’s Senate has narrowly approved a resolution asking the government to recognize a Palestinian state, in hopes that could be a tool in negotiations for lasting Mideast peace. Legislators and officials around Europe are increasingly pushing for two states, disappointed with stalemate in Israe

A Palestinian official has said that the autopsy on Ziad Abu Ein's body proves that Israel's actions led to the death of a Palestinian minister, while Israel disagrees with the findings of the same autopsy. Abu Ein died on Wednesday shortly after an Israeli border policeman shoved and grabbed him

BEIJING: The regional capital of China’s restive western region of Xinjiang has introduced a law banning veiled robes in public places. The measure in the predominantly Muslim region comes as Beijing intensifies a campaign against religious extremism that it blames for the violence that has left

SULAIMANIYAH: Six months into the offensive in Iraq, the autonomous Kurds said Wednesday they had lost more than 700 fighters and argued the burden of hosting a million displaced civilians was becoming unsustainable. Since the Islamic State group launched a devastating offensive from Syria on Jun