Israel's army said Friday it had targeted positions inside Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that struck the northern part of the occupied Golan Heights. "The Israeli army targeted the source of the fire," an army statement said without giving further details. An army...

Around 100 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean according to shipwreck survivors, raising the death toll for the perilous crossing to Italy to over 1,000 victims in 2017, the U.N.'s refugee agency said Friday. "This latest tragedy pushes the number of people dead or missing in the...

 Prominent Kuwaiti opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak was released from prison Friday after serving a two-year sentence for insulting the emir in public. Barrak, 61, walked out of Kuwait's central prison to a frenzied reception by hundreds of his relatives and supporters who broke...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was Friday to meet his Irish and Danish counterparts as the three northern European countries grapple with the likely fallout from Britain's divorce from the EU. Rutte was hosting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and his Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen...