Danish Justice Minister Soeren Pape Poulsen said Wednesday he would prefer for jihadists from his country to die fighting in Syria rather than return home, drawing criticism from the opposition. With the collapse of the last bastion held by Daesh (ISIS) in Syria over the weekend, several...

Schools reopened in southern Israel and traffic clogged Gaza’s streets on Wednesday in signs of a pullback from the most serious escalation of cross-border fighting in months. But while violence eased amid Egyptian mediation, Israeli forces and Palestinian militants were on...

Lebanon said on Wednesday it wanted to follow the example of eastern EU states that have largely rejected refuging its own refugee crisis as a way of resolvs. Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil sympathised with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia's refusal to accept refugee...

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Wednesday held talks with Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, with whom he discussed recent developments in the troubled North African country, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The king received Haftar at Riyadh’s Al-Yamamah Royal Palace,...