Algerian Member of Parliament and former media personality Zahia Benarous reveals that late Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi proposed to her in the 1990s but she turned him down, according to Al Arabiya, a Middle Eastern news website.

A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem yesterday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said.

Saudi security forces on Saturday shot and killed two suspected jihadists including an explosive belt maker during a police operation in

Israel on Friday suspended about $6 million in funding to the United Nations to protest a Security Council resolution demanding an end

A fuel truck exploded in the busy centre of a rebel-held town near Syria's border with Turkey yesterday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more, several sources said.

Four Yemenis released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay arrived Thursday in Saudi Arabia to a tearful reunion with relatives, after

Police questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday for a second time as part of a probe into whether he illegally

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has denounced what he said was a dishonest propaganda campaign by rival jihadist group the

Russia's military yesterday said it has begun scaling down its deployment to Syria, as the regime intensified its bombardment of a

Iraqi forces have retaken around 70 percent of eastern Mosul from Islamic State militants and expect to reach the river bisecting the

Syrian pro-government forces clashed with rebels around the main water source for Damascus yesterday, a monitor said, threatening

An Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant in the occupied West Bank was

The private ownership of wild animals has been outlawed in the United Arab Emirates, where keeping exotic creatures

Dozens of foreign workers have been sentenced to flogging and jail for unrest during protests over unpaid wages by Saudi Binladin

Police grilled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for three hours on Monday evening as part of a graft probe that has shaken

Violence claimed the lives of at least 6,878 civilian Iraqis last year, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Iraqi government

Iran has denied receiving any invitation from Saudi Arabia for talks on the hajj, after a row between the arch-foes saw its pilgrims stay at

Syria's army advanced yesterday as it battles to capture a rebel region that is key to the capital's water supply, launching strikes and

Israeli police were expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday over whether he illegally accepted gifts from

A suicide car bomb attack in a densely-populated neighbourhood of Baghdad yesterday killed at least 32 people and left dozens