The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of Hodeida to be placed under its supervision. The coalition made the appeal...
Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101. His spokesperson Fraser P Seitel said the banker died peacefully in his sleep at his Pocantico Hills home in New York on...
David Rockefeller, a former head of Chase Manhattan bank and luminary in political and philanthropic circles, died Monday at the age of 101, a spokesman said. He died in his sleep due to congestive...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday reiterated a call for a "resistance economy" that prioritises domestic production. In a televised message to mark Nowruz, the Persian New Year,...
As President Donald Trump battles to reinstate his controversial revised travel ban, one overlooked effect has been the havoc wreaked on legal Americans with family abroad. Across the United States,...
Somalia has called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to investigate an incident in which dozens of Somali refugees were shot dead on board a boat. It was not immediately clear who was...
When Sadegh married his college sweetheart, he never thought he'd end up as one of those Iranians facing ruin and even prison because of huge sums demanded by his wife's family. But the "mehrieh"...
The Trump administration on Friday appealed a Maryland court's block of its revised travel ban, aiming to reinstate the temporary halt to immigrants and visitor arrivals from six majority Muslim...
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missile launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six...
Iranian pilgrims will participate in this year's annual hajj, Saudi Arabia said on Friday, after an absence last year during tensions between the regional rivals. "The ministry of hajj and the...
In Aleppo, portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin hang shoulder-to-shoulder with those of his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, signalling Moscow's rise at the expense of Damascus's other...
Image-curation website Pinterest has become the latest social media service blocked in China, checks on censorship monitoring websites indicated Friday. According to greatfire.org and...
Israeli warplanes struck several targets in Syria early Friday, prompting retaliatory missiles launches, in the most serious incident between the two countries since the Syrian civil war began six...
A defiant President Donald Trump has pledged to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary to fight for his revised travel ban, parts of which were halted by two different federal judges in...
President Donald Trump braced Thursday for a long legal battle over his ban on travel from six mainly-Muslim countries after two federal judges ruled against the measure, saying the Republican's own...
US President Donald Trump may not be popular in much of the Muslim world but he has been embraced by Saudi Arabia and, in turn, has reached out to the oil-rich kingdom. A meeting Tuesday in...
US District Judge Derrick Watson cited “questionable evidence” in the government’s argument that the ban was a matter of national security. President Trump described the ruling as...
While Iranians would bear the brunt of Donald Trump's visa ban, which has been blocked on the orders of a US court, international officials say the country has quietly emerged as one of the most...
A federal judge in Hawaii has put President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on hold, issuing an emergency halt to the order just hours before it was set to go into effect. The ruling by US District...
A federal judge in Hawaii halted President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Wednesday, hours before it was due to take effect, court documents showed. US District Judge Derrick Watson ruled that the...
