Eighteen Italian fishermen, held captive in Libya for more than 100 days, have been freed, ending a political standoff between the two countries over the fate of the men. The prolonged impri... Read more

Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria’s northern Kankara village who await word on their sons who are among the more than 330 kidnapped by extremists from a government boys’ school... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad   The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) provides a weekly report on the methods extremists use to exploit the internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and... Read more

Ali Ragab   The election of a military president to Iran during the upcoming elections constitutes a strategic change in the orientations of the Islamic revolution and the supreme leade... Read more

Nora Bandari   The Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi militia continues its collection and looting methods to impose its control over the money of Yemenis, as it resorted to imposing compulso... Read more

Today, the Department of State has designated the Saraya al-Mukhtar group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for posing a significant risk of commit... Read more

More than 137,000 people in Britain have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine in the week since inoculations began, the government announced on Wednesday. The Departmen... Read more

The remaining parties to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear accord met Wednesday after Tehran announced plans for a new breach of the deal, and as uncertainty reigns ahead of US President-elect... Read more

Philippine police arrested Dec. 10 a Saudi national who had eased the entry into Philippines of militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the Middle East. Philippine media... Read more

President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran was “very happy” over the looming departure from office of US counterpart Donald Trump, who led a campaign of “maximum pre... Read more

  Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world’s biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network invo... Read more

Amira Sherif   The interactive map issued by the company International SOS revealed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned Libya into one of the most dangerous countries... Read more

Ahmed Adel   With the near completion of the withdrawal of US forces from Somalia by early 2021, that is, immediately before the departure of outgoing US President Donald Trump from pow... Read more

Australia’s consumer watchdog launched legal action against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging the social media giant “misled” thousands of Australians by collecting user data... Read more