
AFGHANISTAN
Afghan capital in blackout days after attack
Kabul faces major power cuts over the recent destruction of an electricity pylon.

Kabul faces major power cuts over the recent destruction of an electricity pylon.

Activists in Gaza continue their hunger strike in solidarity with a jailed journalist who has been refusing food for over two months in an Israeli jail.

Charity group Oxfam says rich nations are failing to adequately help Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict-stricken country.

Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has ground into a static situation, says the kingdom's military.

The US Department of Justice says it will probe the San Francisco police weeks after law enforcement officers fatally shot black man Mario Woods.

African leaders back a Kenyan proposal for a pullout from the ICC.

France destroys a makeshift church and mosque used by refugees at a campground in the north of the country.

Ratings agency Moody’s foresees Iran’s rise in the global economic scene over its fiscal and structural design.

Final results from the US state of Iowa caucuses show Hillary Clinton and Republican Ted Cruz have won over rivals from their respective parties.

A new report by Human Rights Watch reveals that the US has violated human rights in many areas.

African First Ladies call for more global effort in the fight against AIDS.

Watch startling drone footage of destruction caused by five years of foreign-backed militancy in Syria.

Elections have kick off in the early-voting US state of Iowa.

US 2017 military budget, which includes details of a previously secret mini-drone, is set to be previewed by the Pentagon chief.

The World Health Organization has declared the Zika virus an international public health emergency.

US will not get engaged in “indiscriminate bombing” in its alleged war against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, claims the US military commander in Baghdad.

The Israeli regime bans the manager of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound from entering the site for six months.

French President Francois Hollande calls on the Obama administration to lift the embargo on Cuba as had been pledged.