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Turkish soldiers were hospitalized late Saturday in western Manisa province following complaints of stomach pains and vomiting. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Turkey detains 21 workers over mass army food poisoning

A total of 731 soldiers required medical attention while 21 workers with the catering contractor who supplied the food...

18 Jun 2017 5:08 PM IST

Security forces are deployed at the site of suicide attacks and an ongoing clash between Taliban insurgents and government forces in the main police station in eastern Paktia province, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Taliban attack kills 5 Afghan police, injures 15 in Gardez

The Taliban have been mounting lethal attacks on the positions of the Afghan police, who have lost several dozen men in...

18 Jun 2017 1:30 PM IST

Black smokes rises as a car burns following one of the bomb blasts that rocked two Syrian cities. (Photo: AFP)

Police officer killed in roadside bomb blast in Cairo

The four injured include an officer and three conscripts who were transferred to the hospital for treatment.

18 Jun 2017 10:57 AM IST

UAE state minister for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash. (Photo: AFP)

UAE wants the West to monitor Qatar

Speaking in London, Anwar Gargash, the UAE foreign minister, said its allies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain did not...

18 Jun 2017 2:28 AM IST

King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and Prince Mohammed (Photo: AP)

Saudi king's royal decree strips crown prince of longstanding powers

The king's decree issued on Saturday renames the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution as the office of Public...

17 Jun 2017 3:10 PM IST

Al-Jazeera has said it has come under cyberattack as well amid the diplomatic crisis. (Photo: AFP)

Twitter suspends Al-Jazeera Arabic amid Qatar dispute

San Francisco-based Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

17 Jun 2017 2:29 PM IST

Qatar led most mediation efforts to obtain the release of hostages held by the group formerly known as Al-Nusra Front. (Photo: representational/AP)

Saudi-Qatar crisis puts Syria rebels in tricky position

Sunni-ruled monarchies sided with the protesters in March 2011, when the war started with the brutal repression of...

17 Jun 2017 12:00 PM IST

Israeli borderguards search a Palestinian man outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalems Old City on June 16, 2017, following an attack (Photo: AFP)

IS claims first operation in Israel, one policewoman killed

Three suspected Palestinian attackers were shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said Friday.

17 Jun 2017 11:57 AM IST

A destroyed car outside a badly damaged civilian house in the 17 Tammouz district of western Mosul. Human rights organizations say that Iraqi and coalition forces are using inherently inaccurate and indiscriminate heavy weaponry to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city, putting the tens of thousands of civilians still in Mosul at high risk. (Photo: AP)

Iraqis hunt for their cars in devastated post-IS Mosul

10,000 civilians have fled Mosul since anti-ISIS fighters backed by a US-led coalition launched the battle to retake the...

17 Jun 2017 10:09 AM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Photo: AP)

Will verify if ISIS chief is alive: Russia post US, allies' doubt...

The spokesman for the US-led anti-IS coalition said in a statement Friday he could not confirm the Russian claim.

16 Jun 2017 6:35 PM IST

Two women labourers were on Monday killed and two others injured when they got trapped under a huge heap of mud at an under-construction site. (Photo: PTI/Representational)

Gulf crisis: Qatar's migrant workers including Indians worry about job

Because of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, working hours have already been reduced.

15 Jun 2017 7:13 PM IST

The Qatar Airways official website said that it was also operating flights between Doha and the four Gulf countries which imposed the ban.(Representational image)

Qatar Airways says service 'unaffected' by Gulf ban

The Qatari carrier released a statement saying it had operated some 1,200 flights in the past week.

14 Jun 2017 9:11 PM IST