Author: Daphné Benoit | AFP ID: 1546288645264847800 Mon, 2018-12-31 18:30 AMMAN: France’s defense minister arrived in Jordan on Monday to visit troops battling the Daesh group, showing Paris’s determination to continue the fight after a shock US decision to withdraw … read more
Author: Mon, 2018-12-31 22:59 BEIRUT: Syria’s nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual death toll in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor said on Monday. A total of 19,666 people were killed this … read more
Author: Mon, 2018-12-31 22:35 BEIRUT: Thousands of troops were on Lebanon’s streets Monday as the country prepared to ring in 2019. A huge party was held in central Beirut for the second consecutive year, attracting people from the city’s neighborhoods and … read more
Mon, 2018-12-31 21:14 KHARTOUM: Sudanese police on Monday used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters shortly after they began to march toward the Nile-side presidential palace in Khartoum to press their demands for President Omar Bashir to step down, according … read more
Author: Associated Press ID: 1546279962254535500 Mon, 2018-12-31 (All day) JEDDAH: Iraqi warplanes hit a meeting of Daesh leaders near Deir Ezzor in Syria on Monday, destroying the building they were gathered in, the military said in a statement. The statement … read more