Hard-line Islamist militias claimed to have taken control of Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, after defeating army units, taking over military barracks and seizing tanks, rockets and hundreds of boxes of ammunition.
Turks in Germany streamed into Berlin’s Olympic stadium Thursday, seizing the chance to vote from abroad for the first time in an election Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes will make him Turkey’s first directly elected president.
Booms of outgoing artillery shaking the ground, militia fighters from the remote Libyan mountain town of Zintan hunker down in the passenger terminal to...
Iraqi Shiite militias have drawn up hit lists of suspected Sunni insurgents to be kidnapped, executed and hung in public, security and police officials said,...
A group of politicians and academics in the Gaza Strip have accused Facebook of deliberately suspending their accounts to silence Palestinian criticism of the...
The United Nations in Gaza is struggling to withstand a flood of almost a quarter of a million refugees into shelters that have repeatedly come under Israeli...
Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry Thursday said the killing of its honorary consul for the West African state of Benin, Assaad Shaghouri, was motivated by theft.
The director of the Algerian judicial police said Thursday that the process of identifying the victims of the ill-fated Air Algerie passenger plane that...
Ukraine’s parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s resignation Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army...
A former health care worker at Australia’s immigration detention centers said Thursday the government had asked him to cover up evidence that children there...
France is considering disbanding a radical Jewish group whose members clashed with pro-Palestinian activists during rallies over Israel’s offensive in Gaza, a...
A fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and ISIS militants in rural Aleppo province has killed nearly 50 fighters from both sides as the Kurds seized several...
With the Middle East ablaze with multiple crises, Palestinians are getting less Arab support than before in their latest battle with Israel in Gaza.
ISIS launched a failed attack on the Iraqi town of Dhuluiya Thursday, sparking clashes that left at least five of its fighters dead, the army and residents...
The Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern Syria, forbidding them from showing any part of their bodies.
Two people were shot dead when Libyan border guards opened fire to disperse hundreds of Egyptians trying to cross into Tunisia to flee Libya's growing chaos,...
The UN Security Council on Thursday called for humanitarian pauses in Gaza and renewed its appeal for an immediate ceasefire.
Nine Palestinians were killed on Thursday in an Israeli air strike on a house in the central Gaza Strip's Nusseirat refugee camp, emergency services spokesman...
The European Union said Thursday that it had moved its staff in Libya to Tunisia in light of the deteriorating security situation.
The shelling of a U.N. facility in Gaza this week by the Israeli military is "totally unacceptable and totally indefensible," a White House spokesman said on...
WHO says chief to meet African leaders on Ebola epidemic on Friday
The European Union condemns the shelling of a United Nations school and crowded Gaza market the previous day, urging an immediate probe into the...
Palestinians are "facing a precipice" in Gaza, the top UN refugee official there tells the Security Council in a strongly worded appeal for action.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he remains hopeful for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict but declined to predict when.
The Philippines prepares to evacuate 13,000 citizens from Libya as violence rages and after a Filipino worker was beheaded and a nurse was gang-raped there.
Islamist hard-line militias claim to have taken control of Benghazi, after defeating army units, taking over military barracks and seizing tanks, rockets and...
Hamas calls for “Day of Rage” to take place Friday in the occupied West Bank, as the Israeli offensive continues unabated for a 24th day in the Gaza Strip.
A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam then acquitted after international pressure on Khartoum, leaves Italy for the...
Yemen repatriates eight Saudis wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaeda, the kingdom's interior ministry announces, in the second handover of its kind since...
The jihadist ISIS imposes a strict dress code for women in eastern Syria, forbidding them from showing any part of their bodies, an activist group says.
Ahed Zaqout, a former Palestinian national team player, killed by an Israeli bomb that hit his apartment in Gaza, Palestinian medical officials say.