DERNA, Libya: Libya’s devastating flood has transformed Derna from a busy port welcoming fishing boats and ships loaded with goods and passengers into a dump brimming with rubble, car wrecks and dead bodies. Tugboat captain Ali Al-Mismari, 60, recalled the … read more
BENGHAZI, Libya: Libya’s eastern-based administration said on Friday that it would host an international conference next month in the flood-hit port city of Derna to aid reconstruction efforts. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two aging dams upstream from Derna … read more
ANKARA: Turkish police detained 10 people believed to be linked to Daesh and have arrested five of them, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday. Yerlikaya said Turkiye’s MIT intelligence agency, police, and counter-terrorism squads carried out an operation in … read more
BEIRUT: US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea on Friday said the embassy was “not intimidated” by a gunman’s shots toward its entrance earlier this week and that Lebanese authorities were investigating the incident. Late Wednesday, shots were fired near the … read more
NEW YORK: The Middle East is “on the cusp of a historic peace,” Israel’s prime minister said on Friday, referring to US-brokered efforts to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia. Addressing the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu … read more