CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced to death 75 Islamists, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders, and referred what was the largest single case of capital punishment convictions to the country’s top religious authority, reports AFP. Egyptian law requires the grand mufti to be consulted…

QAMISHLI: A US-backed Kurdish-led alliance said on Saturday that it is seeking a roadmap for a decentralised Syria in talks with the government which opened in Damascus this week, reports AFP. The Syrian Democratic Forces alliance, which controls a swathe of the north and northeast, said it had agreed…

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has verified 7,000 cases of children either killed or maimed in Syria's seven-year war, but says unverified reports puts the number "way beyond 20,000", reports CNN. This year has been particularly woeful for Syria's children as violations against…

BRUSSELS: Catalonia’s deposed president Carles Puigdemont vowed yesterday to “defend the just cause of the Catalan people” as he returned…

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s falling out with longtime lawyer and consigliere Michael Cohen is just the latest in a series of spectacular feuds between…