Middle-East

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

TUNIS: Tunisian security forces deployed in strength yesterday after Salafist movement Ansar Al-Sharia called on its hard-line supporters to defy a government ban on its

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.

BEIRUT: The Syrian rebel commander who rose to international notoriety for footage of him cutting out and eating the organ of a slain soldier said he was willing to face trial for his actions if Pr