Somalia has pushed back its upcoming presidential election by a month, sparking concern in the international community, which has called on all parties to implement the electoral calendar without delay.
Jordanian authorities vowed Tuesday to crack down on incitement to violence on social media, two days after the murder of a writer over which the government has faced public anger
An appeal from Tunisia's highest religious authority for workers to end strikes and protests and save the country's ailing economy stirred outrage Tuesday.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday it has probed a deadly airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a Yemen hospital and found that the attack was "unjustified and unprovoked."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says everything possible needs to be done to bring about a cease-fire in Syria but that she's skeptical a no-fly zone can be...
Saudi Arabia and Iran on Tuesday dashed hopes that OPEC oil producers could clinch an output-limiting deal in Algeria this week as sources said the group and...
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday he hoped for a "jumbo" free trade deal with Turkey and backed Ankara's policy on Syria, seeking to...
Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want details of his dirty laundry aired in public - and he is suing his own office and Israel's attorney general to try to prevent it
The number of murders reported by local law enforcement agencies jumped by more than 10 percent in 2015 from the year before, according to crime data released...
Donald Trump’s status as a Washington outsider fuels his fiery populism and also is helping to shield him from the scrutiny House Republicans are devoting to...
A grenade explosion targeted the home of a member of the Palestinian National Security Forces in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the early hours...
The trial over a deadly 2012 bombing of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, due to start Monday, has been pushed back to November because of a procedural error,...
Iraq has inaugurated an archaeology museum in the southern, oil-rich city of Basra, the first museum to be opened in the war-ravaged country in decades
Morocco is adopting Amazigh spoken by its Berber community as an official language alongside Arabic, rounding off a reform program launched by King Mohammed...
Egypt recovered at least 11 more bodies Tuesday from last week's migrant shipwreck off Egypt's Mediterranean coast, a local official said, raising the death...
A wedding in Yemen ended in tragedy when the "mentally disturbed" father of the bride hurled two grenades, killing eight women, four children and himself, an...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday said she was skeptical that a no-fly zone could be enforced in Syria, given the situation there.
Former hard-line Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday he will not compete in next year's presidential vote, following advice from Iran's supreme...
Syrian government troops Tuesday took control of a central rebel-held district in Aleppo city, where the army is pressing an operation to retake opposition...
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani vowed Tuesday that his country would continue to back Syria in its fight against "terrorism", the semi-official news agency...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Red Cross called Tuesday for dozens of sick and wounded people in the embattled eastern part of the Syrian city of...
South Sudan's government urged Sudan and regional states Tuesday not to let opposition leader Riek Machar launch a new rebellion, after he threatened a return...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that cooperating with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in a potential offensive to retake the Islamic...
Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive...
Iran is not ready to agree to an oil output freeze in Algiers, its Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said Tuesday on the eve of an informal OPEC meeting in...
Turkish authorities have dismissed 87 members of the National Intelligence Agency (MIT), state-run Anadolu agency reported on Tuesday, on suspected links with...
Bombings targeting shopping areas in Shiite districts of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50, security and medical...
Thousands of Saudis have signed a petition urging an end to the guardianship system that gives men control over the study, marriage and travel of female...
Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Tuesday that talks among OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers in Algiers this week are consultative, casting...
The Syrian army and its allies fought intense clashes with insurgents in the opposition-held 1070 Apartments district of southwestern Aleppo Tuesday, senior...
Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 121 people as part of an ongoing investigation into the July 15 failed coup
The collapse of the latest Syria ceasefire has heightened the possibility that Gulf states might arm Syrian rebels with shoulder-fired missiles to defend...
Saudi Arabia will cut ministers’ salaries by 20 percent and scale back financial perks for public sector employees in one of the most drastic measures yet by...