A huge blast followed by a gun battle rocked an upmarket hotel and office complex in Nairobi on Tuesday, causing casualties, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab extremist group. The explosion at the DusitD2 compound, which includes a 101-room hotel, restaurant and several office buildings housing local and ...
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said on Tuesday that his government is ready for joint efforts to seek a political solution to the more than seven-year crisis, state news agency SANA reported. Al-Moallem made the remarks during his meeting with the new UN envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen, who arrived ...