Sudan summoned Egypt's ambassador to Khartoum on Thursday to protest Cairo's "illegal" call for oil and gas exploration bids in the Red Sea area of Halayeb, claimed by both countries. Egypt's control of the Halayeb triangle, which lies in a mineral-rich border region, has for decades been a...

Israeli authorities shut down a French cultural center in Jerusalem Thursday, alleging it was to host an event involving an association supported by the Palestinian Authority. In a rare move, police entered the center in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and ordered it closed until further...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said Thursday intelligence agents had detained his chief of staff following a pre-dawn raid, signaling that President Nicolas Maduro may be cracking down on the opposition's challenge to his rule. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a post on...

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said, and the military announced on Thursday that a soldier had discharged his weapon and it was reviewing the incident. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its crews treated a man with two bullet...