Middle-East

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday as world leaders scramble to find a way to ease Bashar Assad from power

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

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is to bar foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings, local media reported on Thursday, in a decision activists labelled as “racist.”

TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women

BEIRUT/DAMASCUS: The Syrian regime and its allies will refuse any “dictate” at an international peace conference, particularly concerning the departure of President Bashar Assad., a min

The media plays a strong role in promoting Islamophobia in the world, according to Nathan Lean, editor-in-chief, Aslan Media and a researcher at Georgetown University.

RAMALLAH: Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s found

TEHRAN, Iran: Hard-line Iranian lawmakers have petitioned authorities to bar two prominent presidential contenders — a moderate former president and a protege of current President Mahmoud Ahmadineja