AFP, TRIPOLI: Libya’s unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic State group forces of what was the last significant territory they held in the country. However prime minister-designate Sarraj…

AFP, WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump got plenty of attention—but not the kind he was looking for—after a tweet Saturday calling…

AFP, BERLIN: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Sunday defended the alliance’s decision to refrain from stepping into the war in Syria, saying doing so would only make matters worse. All 28 NATO members belong to the US-led coalition battling the Islamic State group but they are not directly involved…

AFP, KABUL: At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded Sunday when a passenger bus collided with a truck in western Afghanistan, officials said, in the latest road accident in the war-torn country. Women and children were among the casualties from the accident on the Herat-Kabul highway in remote…

PTI, London: A Muslim woman was forced to the ground in a busy shopping area in London and dragged along by her hijab by two teenaged men in what authorities said was a hate crime. The British woman was in her 20s walking alone in Chingford, east London, when she was accosted by her attackers. Scotland…

AFP, NEW DELHI: India Saturday announced the names of the new army and airforce chief along with the heads of the country’s spy agencies. Lieutenant…

AFP, JAKARTA: Thirteen people have died after an Indonesian military transport plane crashed in the east of the country on Sunday, officials said, marking yet another air accident for the armed forces. The Hercules C-130 plane took off from Timika city in Papua province carrying 12 crew and one passenger,…