Israel must stop the excessive use of force by its security forces along the Gaza border and must hold to account those responsible for the many deaths and injuries sustained by Palestinians in the past month, the U.N. human rights chief said Friday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human...

Algeria expects to get more illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa after the European Union made it more difficult to reach Europe by boat, a senior official in the country's interior ministry said on Thursday. A 2016 EU agreement with Turkey all but closed the sea route to the Greek...

 Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish authorities have detained four suspected senior Daesh (ISIS) extremists in an operation in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. Anadolu Agency said Friday the suspects include the group's so-called "emir," or ruler, of Deir al-Zor, a major...

Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and...