THE DAILY STAR

Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities Sunday as the insurgents stepped up a nationwide offensi...

Kevin Durant and Jayson Tatum turned on the style as the US men's basketball team eventually shook off the Czech Republic to win 119-84 to r...

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Lebanon registers 984 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths in last 24 hours

State-owned Electricité du Liban warned Saturday that Lebanon may face total blackout very soon if the authorities did not provide fresh U.S...

Hosts Japan displayed nerves of steel as they edged out New Zealand 4-2 in a penalty shootout to reach the men's Olympic soccer semifinals S...

Elaine Thompson-Herah ran the joint second fastest time in history as she retained her Olympic 100m crown Saturday ahead of pre-race favorit...

Afghan and Taliban forces clashed again on the outskirts of Herat Saturday, a day after a police guard was killed when a United Nations comp...

British health authorities have urged more pregnant women to get coronavirus jabs after a national study found the Delta variant appeared to...

A super cruise ship has departed Saudi Arabia for the first time, setting sail for regional waters as the kingdom seeks to expand its touris...

Days after a raging wildfire in southern Turkey drove his family from the home they lived in for four decades, Mehmet Demir returned Saturda...

Former President Donald Trump helped raise more than $56 million from online donors during the first six months of this year, a campaign fin...

Two crew members of an oil tanker managed by a prominent Israeli businessman's company were killed off Oman in what appears to be a drone at...

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it has approved the potential sale of 18 CH-53K heavy lift helicopters to Israel in a deal valued a...

The Lebanese pound dropped sharply on the black market Saturday, trading at LL19,100 against the dollar, exchange dealers said, knocking off...

Israel on Friday accused Iran of having carried out an attack off Oman on a tanker managed by an Israeli-owned company and said a harsh resp...

The European Union said on Friday it had adopted a legal framework for a sanctions regime targeting Lebanese individuals and entities after...

About 270 Palestinian protesters were injured, mostly by tear gas fire, in clashes with Israeli troops Friday in the West Bank, the Palestin...

Lebanon registers 923 COVID-19 cases, three deaths in last 24 hours

Lebanon recorded 923 coronavirus cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Friday, as the Tourism Ministry annou...

The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded...

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said Friday that BDL has sold $828 million to finance fuel imports to Lebanon from its foreign currency r...

Box office analysts have cited the film’s streaming debut as a major factor in a lackluster – by Marvel film standards – release for a film...

Some 200 Afghans were set to begin new lives in the United States on Friday as an airlift got under way for translators and others who risk...

Ethiopian distance runner Selemon Barega stormed to a brilliant 10,000m victory to claim the first gold medal of a spectator-less Olympic at...