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

New York City: When Modi was addressing to Indians at Madison Sqare Garden in New York City, there was a quite different scene outside the Madison Square. People in large number were shouting slogans against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi carrying in their hands placards, banners and posters wh

RAF Akrotiri: Two British jets were flying over Iraq and were ready to hit targets on Saturday, their first mission since parliament authorized strikes against IS, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said. A Reuters witness at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus saw two Tornado jets leaving the facility at 0725 GMT

New York City, New York: The US Federal Court for the Southern District of New York todayissued summons against the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his role in the massacres committed in Gujarat during 2002, when he was Chief Minister of the Indian state. Mr. Modi is expected to arrive in th

CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah said they reached an agreement for the return of their unity government in Gaza ahead of crucial negotiations with Israel next month. The Palestinian rivals had set up a unity government of independents in June but it never took hold, with Palesti

DAMASCUS: US planes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day on Wednesday, but the strikes did not halt the fighters’ advance in a Kurdish area where fleeing refugees told of villages burned and captives beheaded. Syrian Kurds said Islamic State had responded to US attacks by int

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's air force participated in US-led bombing strikes against the so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria on Tuesday as part of global efforts to eliminate terrorism, an official source said. “The Saudi Royal Air Force participated in the military operations against IS i

ANKARA, Turkey –  Some 130,000 Kurdish refugees fleeing ISIS have crossed the border from Syria into Turkey in the past four days, Turkey's deputy prime minister said Monday as fighting raged close to Turkey's southern border. The minister, Numan Kurtulmus, warned that Turkey was facing "a refuge

KABUL: Afghanistan's election commission on Sunday has named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the winner of the country's presidential election, but the commission did not release final vote figures. The commission's announcement came hours after Ghani Ahmadzai signed a power sharing agreement with oppon