Former Turkish deputy prime minister Ali Babacan will form a new political party by the end of the year to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, announcing his intentio... Read more

The Saudi cabinet hailed on Tuesday the joint statement issued between the Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates on Yemen. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz chaired... Read more

Unknown warplanes targeted an arms depot and posts of Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, killing at least 18 fighters in a nighttime attack, Syrian opposition a... Read more

A Syrian war monitor associated with the opposition said Monday that over 120 Christian places of worship have been damaged or destroyed by all sides in the country’s eight-year conflict. So... Read more

A U.S. official visiting Beirut to mediate between Lebanon and Israel over a maritime border dispute is a “friend of Israel,” keen to defend its interests, the leader of Lebanon’s militant H... Read more

An Iranian female soccer fan has died after setting herself on fire outside a court after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a soccer stadium, a semi-off... Read more

The neighbors reported a foul smell coming from the house next door. The house, which the Islamic State group had used as a school for its “cubs,” had been untouched ever since the militants... Read more

Egypt’s foreign minister on Monday called for more support for neighboring Sudan’s new civilian-led government, including getting it off the U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. The... Read more

The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment mi... Read more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to secure a divorce deal with the European Union at a crucial summit in October, after lawmakers voted for a second time to reject his bid to hold... Read more

US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel a meeting with the Taliban leaders and suspend peaceful consultations is a negative signal, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan... Read more

The Sudanese government is seeking to remove Sudan from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, Foreign Minister Asmaa Abdullah said Monday. The Foreign Ministry will act to achieve that for... Read more

The Arab League said on Monday it delegated a mission under Ambassador Khalil Ibrahim al Zawady, Head of Arab and National Security Affairs Department, to Tunis to take part in monitoring Tu... Read more

Samples taken by the UN nuclear watchdog at what Israel’s prime minister called a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran showed traces of uranium that Iran has yet to explain, two diplomats who... Read more