Middle-East

CAIRO: Egyptian police enraged by the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by gunmen in the Sinai Peninsula blocked a commercial border crossing with Israel day, secu

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki called yesterday for joint Sunni-Shiite prayers after a spate of attacks on places of worship, saying the attackers wanted to igni

DUBAI: Iranian authorities executed two men yesterday convicted of working for Israeli and US spy agencies, Iran’s Fars news agency reported.

TEHRAN: A car packed with Afghans smuggled into Iran collided with another vehicle and burst into flames yesterday, killing nine Afghans and five Iranians, media reporte

NEW YORK: Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause

Yemen’s Air Force has been the target of “sabotage,” the country’s military aviation chief said in a televised interview, days after a fighter jet crashed in the capital Sanaa.

BAGHDAD: Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.

DAMASCUS: Gunmen yesterday abducted the elderly father of Syria’s deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said.

CAIRO: Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday, stranding hundreds of Palestin

ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer in a drive-by attack in the southern city of Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt provi