As the counting of votes was underway for the Pakistan general elections held on Thursday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan claimed victory, saying that the people demonstrated their resolve to elect his party by turning out in large numbers to vote. The jailed Pakistani leader also insisted on protecting ‘Form 45’ to guard the […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday as he attempted to seal a truce in the four-month-old Gaza war. Blinken, who had flown from Saudi Arabia to Egypt and then Qatar on Tuesday in what is his fifth crisis tour of the Middle East, landed in Israel late in the evening, […]
Israeli strikes on Syria’s Homs killed four people including two civilians Wednesday, a war monitor told AFP, with Syria’s defence ministry reporting an unspecified number of civilians dead and injured. “Four people have been killed, including two civilians, in the Israeli strikes on Homs city,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for […]