Dubai: Israel’s prime minister says he will not cave in to international pressure to stop a military offensive in the Gaza Strip. Benjamin Netanyahu told a news conference on Friday that Israel will continue its offensive until rocket fire out of Gaza is halted. He says he has had “good convers

Jeddah: The world's largest Muslim bloc Thursday urged the UN Security Council to force a halt to Israel's air war on Gaza that has killed more than 80 Palestinians in three days. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, after a meeting of its executive committee in Jeddah, said it was forming a

GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza relentlessly on Thursday, causing a growing number of civilian casualties. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza, but Israel showed no sign of letting up. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ha

JERUSALEM: Israel significantly broadened its campaign against Gaza on Wednesday after Hamas fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in their biggest confrontation since 2012, raising fears of a major Israeli ground offensive. It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Gaza Strip since November 2

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 12 people on Tuesday and wounded 80 others, the emergency services said, as the military began an aerial campaign against militants in the Strip. It was the most serious flare-up in and around the Palestinian territory since Novem

JERUSALEM: Hamas unleashed dozens of rockets on southern Israel late Monday, setting off air raid sirens and forcing hundreds of thousands of Israelis to stay indoors as the military rushed more forces to the border and warned that even heavier fighting looked likely. The latest violence came as

WASHINGTON: The US Transportation Security Administration will not allow cellphones or other electronic devices on US-bound planes at some overseas airports if the devices are not charged up, the agency said. The new measure is part of the TSA's effort announced last week to boost security amid c

Mandalay: Muslims in Myanmar’s second-largest city accused police of standing by as a Buddhist mob went on a rampage, torching a school and other buildings. Angry mourners, some carrying crude weapons, rioted in Mandalay after the funeral of a 36-year-old Buddhist victim of the country’s latest

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to life in prison on Saturday, and confirmed death sentences for 10 others, most of them on the run. Badie, convicted of involvement in deadly protests, had already received death sentences in two ot

Marietta, Georgia:  Prosecutors say a man unhappy in his marriage exchanged nude photos with several women as his son died in a hot vehicle, in a criminal case that quickly gained attention across America. Justin Ross Harris, 33, faces murder and child cruelty charges in the death of his 22-month

LONDON: Britain had planned to train and equip a 100,000-strong rebel army to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before it was deemed to be too risky, BBC Newsnight reported on Thursday. The BBC said the secret "extract, equip, train" proposal, put forward two years ago, was the idea of Gene

LONDON: Iran has supplied Iraq with fighter jets to help it counter the belligerent offensive by ISIS who have taken over large swathes of territory, a media report said on Thursday. Russia supplied an initial delivery of the aircraft just a few days ago but analysts at the International Institut

Beijing: China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting, government websites said, prompting condemnation from an exile group on Wednesday. China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist, and for years has re

BEIRUT: Rebel fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al-Qaida offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq an

BEIRUT: ISIS in Syria has publicly executed and crucified nine men, eight of them rebels fighting both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the ISIS, a monitor said on Sunday. The report comes amid fierce clashes on the outskirts of Damascus between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which is

Baghdad:  The Iraqi army on Saturday drove insurgents from the center of a major city in central Iraq, for the first time mounting a concerted assault against insurgents who had charged to within 50 miles of Baghdad. Independent sources, including local officials and witnesses, confirmed that an Ir

Baghdad: Iraqi insurgents executed at least 160 captives earlier this month in the northern city of Tikrit, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, citing an analysis of satellite imagery and grisly photos released by the militants. The US-based rights group said militants from the Islamic State of

SANAA, Yemen: Fierce clashes erupted between rebels and tribes backed by an army unit in a northern Yemeni city close to the capital on Friday, breaching a week-old ceasefire, a defense ministry official said, as the country's leaders said assailants were plotting to destabilize the country. The