Sanaa: Yemen Houthi rebels said on Tuesday they had withdrawn completely from Saudi territory as part of truce offer extended to the world’s top oil exporter, with whom they have clashed along the Yemen-Saudi border.

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people and wounded 80 others near an Iraqi Interior Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, ministry officials said.

ISLAMABAD — The United States is planning a television programming project targeting Pakistani children in what many describe as an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the younger generation and neutralize growing anti-American sentiments.

Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has been executed in Iraq for crimes against humanity, a government spokesman said.

At least 37 people have been killed in three suicide car bombings, which took place within 10 minutes of each other, near hotels in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police said.

A security alert has been issued at India’s airports after intelligence services received information about a plot to hijack a plane.The alleged plot involved an Air India or Indian Airlines flight bound for a neighbouring country, officials said on Friday.

Joe Biden, the US vice-president, has begun talks with Iraqi leaders amid tensions over a decision to bar candidates from upcoming elections over their suspected links to the outlawed Baath party.

GAZA, (PIC)– The government committee to break the siege appealed to the international community and the UN to pressure Israel to respond to Amnesty International’s report which called for lifting the blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip.

LONDON, (PIC)– Hundreds gathered in Brighton, south of London, on Monday to protest the presence of EDO, an arms firm that develops weapons parts used in the Israeli war on Gaza last year.

“The blockade constitutes collective punishment under international law and must be lifted immediately,” says Smart. CAIRO – Israel must end its “suffocating” blockade on the war-torn Gaza Strip, where the population struggles to survive under collective punishment, a leading international rights group said in a report marking the first anniversary of Israel’s war on the […]