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Afghan women wearing full face veils sat in rows at a Kabul university lecture theatre Saturday, pledging commitment to the Taliban’s hardline policies on gender segregation.

U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will fly to Tehran this weekend

Twenty years after hijacked airliners smashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, Americans will honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost on Sept.11

The Lebanese pound edged lower Saturday, trading at 16,050 to the dollar on the black market, a day after it surged around 10 percent on the formation of a new … Read More

The United States on Friday welcomed Lebanon’s formation of a government after a 13-month wait and called for it to take “urgent action” to reform a battered economy.

The daily life of unaccompanied Afghan refugee children in Qatar is punctuated by recurring questions, “where are we going?” and “can I have some chips”.

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday said the country would not tolerate any foreign interference as he faces rising pressure from Western governments to restore constitutional order after seizing power … Read More

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Friday named businessman Aziz Akhannouch to lead a new government after his National Rally of Independents (RNI) thrashed the long-ruling Islamists in parliamentary elections.

Israel has recaptured four of the six Palestinian militants who escaped from a high-security prison earlier this week in one of the most spectacular breakouts in the country’s history, police … Read More

Novak Djokovic will play Daniil Medvedev to try and complete the first men’s singles calendar-year Grand Slam since 1969 after defeating Tokyo Olympic champion Alexander Zverev in Friday’s US Open … Read More