Britain's main opposition Labour Party has passed a motion strongly criticizing Israel, as a senior lawmaker warned the party must root out anti-Semitism.
French President Emmanuel Macron called Tuesday for "dialogue and multilateralism" on Iran, in a thinly veiled response to President Donald Trump's push for tough, US-led sanctions.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday sharply criticized the use of economic sanctions "as weapons" in his address to the United Nations, in an implicit swipe at the United States.
Israel opened a high-speed rail link between Tel Aviv's international airport and Jerusalem on Tuesday, part of a $2 billion project that has drawn Palestinian complaints over its route through small parts of the occupied West Bank.
Saudi Arabia denied it had backed the gunmen who killed 25 people at a military parade in southwestern Iran over the weekend, almost half of them...
Two people were killed in a land mine blast in a mountainous area of central Tunisia near the Algerian border used as a hideout by Islamist militants, the...
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday she hoped to meet her Saudi counterpart this week on the sidelines of a U.N. meeting to discuss a...
A senior Hamas official denied Tuesday that Egyptian-brokered talks on reconciliation with the Palestinian Authority and a lasting truce with Israel have...
When visitors enter the Home of Hope shelter in Mount Lebanon’s Kahaleh, children will inevitably flock around them and demand hugs.
In the wake of Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in nine years, a transparency group is calling for reforms to campaign finance rules.
The Italian government adopted Monday a heavily criticized security decree which will make it easier to expel migrants and strip them of Italian citizenship.
Russia’s ruling party suffered two rare defeats in regional elections this weekend as its candidates lost to populists amid widespread discontent over a...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday Israel would continue its military operations in Syria, after Russia announced it would supply an advanced...
Bahrain charged 169 people Tuesday suspected of forming "Bahrain's Hezbollah," a local version of the group, which prosecutors said was trained and backed by...
The Syrian state will recover Idlib through war or peaceful means, a minister was quoted as saying Tuesday, pointing to the government's determination to...
Iran's intelligence ministry said Tuesday that investigators had found last week's deadly attack on a military parade in the mainly ethnic-Arab southwestern...
Turkish troop reinforcements entered Syria's rebel bastion of Idlib Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a week after a deal between Ankara and Moscow...
An international watchdog is accusing Yemen's Houthi rebels, of committing "serious abuses" – including "taking hostages, torture and enforced disappearances"...
The World Bank warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip's economy is in "free fall" as cuts to aid and salaries add to an already crippling Israeli blockade on the...
Russia announced Monday it will supply Syria’s government with sophisticated S-300 air defense systems after last week’s downing of a Russian plane by regime...
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that the attackers who killed 25 people at a military parade had been paid by Saudi Arabia and the...
The characters drawn in black-and-white ball-pen by Najah al-Bukai look broken, left in pain and despair by the torture the exiled Syrian artist says he went...
At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior U.S. official told European diplomats that their efforts to...
European Union envoys are set to agree a new mechanism to punish chemical weapons’ attacks by targeting people blamed for using banned munitions regardless of...
Two migrants, a Syrian and an Algerian national found in possession of firearms were arrested in the Bosnian capital during the weekend, police said Monday.
Staff at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees went on strike in the Gaza Strip Monday to protest against job losses and U.S. funding cuts.
Canada-based Cirque du Soleil staged its first show in Saudi Arabia Sunday with a dazzling display of high-wire thrills, despite a diplomatic spat between...
An Arab military alliance fighting in Yemen said Monday it would open humanitarian corridors between two key rebel held areas – Hudaida and the capital Sanaa...
In 2014, the Kuwaiti press hailed Gabriel Garcia Marquez as a literary “giant.” But since his death, the Colombian writer and a slew of others have been...
Egypt’s highest court upheld the death sentences Monday given to 20 people convicted over a deadly attack on a police station in 2013, judicial sources and...
France Monday called for stronger U.N. sanctions on Libyans who stand in the way of a political solution in the conflict-ridden country.
Turkey's lira firmed more than 3 percent on Monday after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he expected discussions with Turkish officials this week...
A Palestinian was shot dead Monday by Israeli soldiers in new protests along the border of the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the enclave said.