Qatar's emir was to tour six West African nations starting Wednesday in search of new markets, six months after Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries cut ties with the wealthy emirate. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Lulwa al-Khater told a press conference that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...

Violence reportedly broke out late Tuesday at the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), serious clashes erupted between Arab, Afghan and Iraqi refugees. An unknown number of injured have been transferred to a...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev separately received on Thursday Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers in Baku. According to a presidential statement, the meeting came before a fifth trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iran. Aliyev...

 The Israeli army detained 24 Palestinians in overnight raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian NGOs on Wednesday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said Israeli forces rounded up 18 Palestinians after raiding their homes in the...