Syrian air defences “shot down” the Turkish jet fighter that went missing while on patrol near the border between the two countries on Friday, according to local television reports. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish...
(Reuters) – Elite Afghan police backed by NATO forces ended a 12-hour siege on Friday at a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, leaving at least 20 dead after Taliban gunmen stormed the lakeside building,...
Egypt’s election officials have postponed announcing the results of the presidential runoff election. Sky News explains. “The authorities say the results won’t be for several days, because they need more time to study appeals. The move...
A judge in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of President Asif Ali Zardari’s preferred candidate for prime minister, just a day after he was nominated. Makhdoom Shahabuddin’s arrest warrant is linked to imports of...
(Reuters) – Egypt’s political upheaval is by no means over, but its uneasy neighbor Israel is not waiting for the outcome. Desert defenses are being strengthened and strategy revised as a once stable relationship...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly suffered multiple strokes and was being transferred to a military hospital, NBC News has learned. Mubarak’s lawyers told NBC News he needed to be stabilized before he was...
(multimedia) South Korea is set to spend over $7 billion dollars on FX fighter jets, with three competing sellers. A supplier will be announced in October as up to 50 percent of all of the...
The Muslim Brotherhood has called for mass protests across Egypt to demonstrate against sweeping new powers taken by the ruling military council. Over the weekend, the generals issued two decrees dissolving the Islamist-dominated parliament...
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s increasingly assertive Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil during one of the worst crises in relations with...
A Russian ship believed to be carrying helicopters and missiles for Syria has been effectively stopped in its tracks off the coast of Scotland after its insurance was cancelled at the behest of the...
