NO ACCESS: Israeli security forces stand in front of a Palestinian worshipper performing Friday prayers in a street outside the Old City in east Jerusalem on Friday. (AFP) GAZA CITY: Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza participated in a Hamas-organized rally Friday over Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqs

Cairo: An Egyptian court Thursday cleared 141 backers of the deposed president Mohammad Mursi of violence charges in a rare verdict involving Muslim Brotherhood, according to judicial sources. The Criminal Court in the southern city of Assiut convicted 26 other defendants in the same case of in

Katmandu: A snowstorm and avalanche in Nepal’s Himalayas has killed 17 trekkers and guides — nine foreigners and eight Nepalis — on a popular hiking route, while more than 100 others remain out of contact, officials said Wednesday. Severe weather triggered by the tail end of Cyclone Hudhud, which

WASHINGTON: US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State fighters with 21 bombing raids near Kobani on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had “slowed” the group’s advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said. In one of the heaviest bombardments so far against the encircling Koba

JEDDAH: Jewish settlements around Al-Aqsa Mosque are growing rapidly leading to the eviction of Palestinians from their native land, said Yousuf Juma Salama, imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque, while talking to Malayalam News, a sister publication of Arab News. Salama, who was in Makkah to perform Haj as a g

CAIRO: Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key participants said their efforts would be futile without a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians. US-mediated talks broke down this summer before the 50

CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday jailed eight men, including two Muslim Brotherhood leaders, for up to 15 years over the torture of a lawyer during the 2011 uprising against ex-president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters have been jailed

GENEVA: More than 4,000 people have died in the Ebola epidemic that broke out in west Africa at the start of the year, according to the latest figures released by the World Health Organization on Friday. The WHO said that as of October 8, 4,033 people have died from Ebola out of a total of 8,399

MURSITPINAR, Turkey/BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as US-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening. With Washington ruling out a ground ope

LONDON: This year's Nobel prize for physics is about light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel prize in physics for 2014 to three Japanese-born scientists, Isamu Akasaki from Meijo University, Hiroshi Amano from the Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura fro

Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), backed by tanks and artillery, advanced into the southwest of the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane overnight, a monitoring group said Tuesday, as street-to-street fighting raged and the town's Kurdish defenders ordered all civilians to flee.

At least 10 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in clashes with al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing the al-Nusra Front in eastern Lebanon , Reuters quoted a source in the group as saying on Monday. The death toll was one of the highest the group has suffered in a single action since it said it would fight alo

DALLAS: The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States slipped from serious to critical condition in Dallas, while a former Ebola patient was readmitted to a Massachusetts hospital. The case of Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived in Dallas from Liberia two weeks ago, has heightened concerns t

Human rights groups condemned on Friday a Myanmar government plan that could force thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims into detention camps indefinitely if they do not qualify for citizenship. The U.S. and some other embassies in Myanmar had raised their concern with the government about some

A French pilgrim who recently converted to Islam and drove 7,000 km in his car with his wife to perform Umrah is now in Makkah as the guest of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for Haj. Alexander embraced Islam and adopted his Muslim name, Hamza, after six years of search for the tr

BEIRUT: The Islamic State group on Tuesday freed more than 70 Kurdish school children its fighters kidnapped in northern Syria in May, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based group said parents had reported the release of the children, who are believed to be aged between 13

September 30, 2014 | Press Release | Bhatkallys News US: Coalition Against Genocide (CAG), a broad alliance dedicated to justice and accountability for the Gujarat pogroms of 2002 and to defending India's secular tradition, has welcomed a letter to President Obama by eleven members of Congress, u

DAMASCUS: Islamic State group fighters closed in Monday to within only a few kilometers of a key Kurdish town on Syria’s border with Turkey, despite continued airstrikes by the US-led coalition. NATO member Turkey’s government meanwhile said it would ask Parliament to debate joining the coalition