Washington, January 4 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s much-awaited first TV ad features a promise that once he is at the helm he will quickly cut” ISIS’ head and “take their oil”. Trump’s ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a US battleship launchingRead More

Dubai, January 4 Iran accused Saudi Arabia on Monday of using an attack on its embassy as a pretext to sever ties in a diplomatic crisis deepening their often violent struggle for influence across the Middle East. Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday and fellow-Sunni Bahrain followed suitRead More

London, January 4 An Islamic State video showing a young boy in military fatigues and an older masked militant who both spoke with British accents is “desperate” propaganda from an organisation that is losing ground, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. The video, which could not be independently verified,Read More

Kabul, January 4 Heavy fighting continued on Monday, hours after militants attempted to storm the Indian diplomatic mission in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Special forces carried out clearing operations with India’s Ambassador here saying all were safe in the consulate. Clearing operations in Mazar-i-Sharif on by special forces, IndianRead More

Tehran, January 3 Angry crowds protesting at Saudi Arabia’s execution of a top Shiite cleric hurled petrol bombs and stormed the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran before being cleared out by police, reports said. In Mashhad, Iran’s second biggest city, demonstrators yesterday meanwhile set fire to the Saudi consulate, according toRead More

London, Tony Blair and other former prime ministers have been banned from staying for free at taxpayers expense at British embassies and using diplomats to help carry out their private commercial work, a media report has said. The Foreign Office said that it wanted to prevent the “inappropriate use” of governmentRead More

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir’s visit to Islamabad today has been postponed, the foreign office said. This was done at Saudi Arabia’s request, Dawn online reported. Mr Jubeir was to arrive in Islamabad today to take the Pakistani leadership into confidence over the Middle East situation andRead More

HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers said today that they will press the government for answers after a fifth employee of a publisher specializing in books critical of mainland China’s leadership went missing. Lawmaker Albert Ho said the city was “shocked and appalled” by the disappearance of Lee Bo. LikeRead More

Seoul, January 1 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in an annual New Year’s speech today that he was ready for war if provoked by “invasive” outsiders, but stayed away from past threats centering on the country’s nuclear weapons and long- range missile ambitions. His comments stuck to theRead More

MUNICH, January 1 Germany received a tip hours before midnight that named militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks in Munich but police have been unable to find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the Munich police chief said onRead More