WASHINGTON: Talks in Cairo on reaching a Gaza truce have made progress, the White House said Friday, as it urged Israel and Hamas to move forward. The White House confirmed that

MUSCAT: The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman’s capital has climbed to nine, police said Tuesday, adding that the three attackers were also killed.  

MUSCAT: A Comorian-flagged oil tanker capsized off Oman on Monday, the sultanate’s Maritime Security Center (MSC) said, adding that a search was under way for its missing crew of 16.

TRIPOLI: The United Nations Libya mission (UNSMIL) called on Wednesday on Libyan authorities to free political activist Al-Moatassim Al-Areebi and to end arbitrary detentions. Al-Areebi, 29, was abducted on Monday

JERUSALEM: Israeli tanks and artillery on Wednesday struck Syrian army targets that had violated the 1974 demilitarization deal in the area of the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said. “The

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Jordan had airdropped 30 tonnes of ready-to-eat food for besieged Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) said early

BAGHDAD: As war rages in Gaza and threatens to spread to Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter the fray against Israel and the United States. A

WASHINGTON: A dozen former US government officials who quit over US support for Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday accused President Joe Biden’s administration of “undeniable complicity” in

AMMAN/ISTANBUL: Turkiye closed its main border crossings into northwest Syria on Tuesday after Turkish troops came under fire from Syrians angered by violence against their compatriots in Turkiye, a Syrian