Middle-East

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will sue opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu after he compared him to Syria’s embattled president over deadly

WASHINGTON: When the rain began to pour on President Barack Obama during a joint conference with the Turkish premier earlier this week, the US official made a pretty mun

RIPOLI, Libya: Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

BAQUBA: Two bombs near a Sunni mosque and another against a Sunni funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq yesterday, officials said, after two days of attacks against Shiites that killed dozens

TEHRAN: Women can not contest Iran’s June 14 presidential election, a member of the Islamic state’s electoral watchdog said in media reports yesterday, dashing the hopes of some 30 fema

CAIRO: Hundreds of people marched on Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday calling for Egypt’s President Muhammad Mursi to resign and demanding early elections, AFP correspondents and local m

ANKARA: Turkish police have detained a man they believe to be one of the main perpetrators of car bombings that killed more than 50 people near the Syrian border, officials said yesterday.

ABOARD USS PONCE: Divers leap from a helicopter into the Gulf's choppy waters to destroy a mine, while a US marine fires at a floating target, as forces from 41 coun

BAGHDAD: Car bombs struck the Iraqi capital and a northern city yesterday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in another Baghdad incident shot dead the brother of a lawmake

CAIRO: Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted six security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early yesterday, security officials said, the first