Arab, EU diplomats in Saudi for talks on support for Syria RIYADH: Top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe were arriving in the Saudi capital on Sunday to discuss Syria,... Updated 12 Jan, 2025 09:58pm
World Turkiye will do ‘whatever it takes’ if Syria government cannot address Kurd militia issue, minister says ANKARA: Turkiye will do “whatever it takes” to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address... Updated 22 Dec, 2024 11:59am
Editorials TTP and al-Qaeda EDITORIAL: The international community ignores Pakistan’s warning that TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) could... Published 22 Dec, 2024 02:57am
World EU sending envoy to talk to Syria’s new leaders BRUSSELS: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday the bloc’s envoy to Syria was going to Damascus to talk to... Published 16 Dec, 2024 02:31pm
World G7 to meet on Syria, government pledges ‘rule of law’ DAMASCUS: G7 leaders will attempt Friday to forge a common approach to the new government of Syria, which has... Published 13 Dec, 2024 11:43am
Editorials Continuing turmoil in the Middle East EDITORIAL: Western and Middle Eastern capitals and commentators alike taking comfort in the fall of the Assad regime... Updated 11 Dec, 2024 08:19am
World China calls for ‘political solution’ to restore stability in Syria BEIJING: China’s foreign ministry on Monday called for a “political solution” to be found in Syria as soon as... Published 09 Dec, 2024 01:02pm
World With Assad ousted, a new era starts in Syria as the world watches DAMASCUS: Syrians awakened on Monday to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and... Published 09 Dec, 2024 11:18am
World Syrian rebels say they have toppled Assad in state television announcement Syria's army command informs officers that Assad's regime has ended Updated 08 Dec, 2024 11:08pm
World Son of Osama bin Laden deported from France, barred from returning PARIS: A son of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden has been deported from France, where he lived for years painting... Published 08 Oct, 2024 07:04pm
World Dozens killed in attack in Burkina Faso: sources ABIDJAN: Civilians are among the dozens of people killed in an attack by militants in Burkina Faso, local and... Published 26 Aug, 2024 11:45am
World Burkina Faso extends junta rule by five years Burkina Faso’s ruling junta will remain in power for another five years after participants in national talks on... Published 26 May, 2024 10:50am
World New leader for Al-Qaeda’s infamous but struggling Yemen branch DUBAI: Saad al-Awlaki has taken the helm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula after the death its former leader,... Published 29 Mar, 2024 04:45am
World ‘170 people executed’ in attacks on Burkina villages: prosecutor OUAGADOUGOU: Around 170 people were “executed” in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a... Published 03 Mar, 2024 01:43pm
Editorials TTP and its Afghan hosts EDITORIAL: Speaking at an Asia Society event in New York on Wednesday, interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani... Published 24 Sep, 2023 03:21am
Editorials Afghan spillover EDITORIAL: Islamabad understands the UN’s (United Nation’s) concerns about TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) and... Published 01 Sep, 2023 05:41am
World US military mission in Niger in focus after coup WASHINGTON: Last month’s coup in Niger has raised questions over whether the United States can continue the... Published 10 Aug, 2023 10:15am
World Afghan Taliban say Biden 'acknowledged reality' about Al-Qaeda KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Saturday seized on an off-the-cuff remark by US President Joe Biden to... Updated 01 Jul, 2023 05:59pm
World Taliban kill IS ‘mastermind’ of Kabul airport attack: White House WASHINGTON: The Taliban government has killed the alleged mastermind of a devastating suicide bomb attack at the... Published 26 Apr, 2023 09:06am
Opinion The MbS reset The Arab press hasn’t buzzed like this since al Qaeda (AQ) hijacked the so-called Arab Spring in Libya and Syria,... Published 16 Mar, 2023 06:01am
Pakistan Punjab CTD arrests 12 alleged terrorists linked to TTP, Al-Qaeda The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested 12 alleged terrorists belonging to the outlawed... Updated 10 Mar, 2023 07:26pm
World Al-Qaeda confirms top figure killed in Yemen strike: monitor DUBAI: Al-Qaeda on Sunday confirmed the death of a senior figure in the militant network’s Yemen branch in a... Published 05 Mar, 2023 08:58pm
World Top Al-Qaeda figure killed in Yemen air strike: sources DUBAI: A senior Al-Qaeda figure was killed in a suspected US air strike in war-torn Yemen, security and local... Updated 05 Mar, 2023 08:58pm
World Nine killed in central Somalia car bombings MOGADISHU: At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in... Published 04 Jan, 2023 12:41pm
World US brands South Asian Al-Qaeda, TTP militants as global terrorists WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday announced it was designating South Asian Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban... Published 02 Dec, 2022 11:19am
World Four dead in hotel siege in Somali capital: security agency MOGADISHU: At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular... Published 28 Nov, 2022 12:36pm
Pakistan Oldest Guantanamo Bay prisoner released to Pakistan: foreign ministry Businessman Saif Ullah Paracha, like most detainees at Guantanamo, was never formally charged and had little legal power to challenge his detention Updated 29 Oct, 2022 03:00pm
World US says four jihadists killed in Somalia air strikes WASHINGTON: The US military said Wednesday it carried out three air strikes north of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu,... Published 11 Aug, 2022 04:35am
Print Taliban say were not aware al-Zawahiri in Kabul, warn US ISLAMABAD/KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday said the government had no information about al Qaeda leader Ayman... Published 05 Aug, 2022 06:27am
Editorials Ayman al-Zawahiri EDITORIAL: One of the world’s most hunted terrorists with a $25 million bounty on his head, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who... Published 04 Aug, 2022 06:44am