Saudi Arabian will start fasting on the month of Ramadan from Monday as the country’s moon observers said the crescent of Ramadan was not sighted Saturday, the Arab News reports.

Gaza militants yesterday fired a barrage of dozens of rockets at Israel, which responded with strikes that killed a Palestinian, officials said, as a fragile ceasefire again faltered.

Sudan’s prosecutor general has ordered the questioning of ousted president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and “financing terrorism”, the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday.

Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh identifies the 10 Bangladeshi workers who were killed in a road crash last Thursday. They were killed when a minibus, carrying them to Madina from Dammam, fell in a ditch due to a burst tyre in a place named Shaqra.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen raided a drone facility used by Huthi rebels at an airbase in the capital Sanaa, a spokesman

Afghan officials yesterday called for a ceasefire as a huge peace summit wound down in Kabul after thousands of delegates spent days discussing possible conditions for a peace deal with the Taliban.

Fighting in northwestern Syria has displaced nearly 140,000 people since February, the UN said on Wednesday, as the regime and its ally Russia have stepped up their bombardment.

Iran’s top general yesterday warned Tehran could close the strategic Strait of Hormuz shipping route if it faces more “hostility”, news agency ISNA said, as the US tightens up sanctions.

Attacks by two jihadist groups killed at least 22 Syrian government troops and militiamen in the northern province of Aleppo early yesterday, a war monitor said.

Long before Saudi Arabia announced it had carried out one of the largest mass executions in its history earlier this week, some of the men condemned to death said they were innocent and their confessions had been written by the same people who had tortured them, a media report said yesterday.

Two children were killed yesterday as fighting resumed between pro-government militias in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taez, local

Iran on Wednesday criticised US talks with the Taliban on ending the Afghanistan war, saying Washington was elevating the role of the militants.

At least 33 of the 37 Saudis executed by the kingdom in a single day belonged to the Sunni-dominated country’s Shia minority, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia beheads 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorism-related crimes.

Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint border “reaction force” following a number of deadly attacks by militant groups on their frontier, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday after talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday launched an air raid on a cave in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, used by Huthi rebels to stockpile drones, a

Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the communications ministry in central Kabul on Saturday, officials said, in a deadly, hours-long

Turkey has arrested two men suspected of spying for the United Arab Emirates and is probing if they are tied to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

President Emmanuel Macron yesterday hosted representatives of the Kurdish-led force that defeated IS extremists in Syria, assuring them of France’s

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday formally handed Benjamin Netanyahu his letter of appointment to start building a coalition