One policeman was killed and another wounded in a shooting incident in central Paris on Thursday night, a police source said. The person who fired on police on the Champs-Elysees, one of the world's most prestigious boulevards, has been killed, the source said. Police authorities called...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi were both approved to run in May's presidential election by a government vetting body, while former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was disqualified, state media reported on Thursday. The approval of Rouhani, a moderate, and...

The United States on Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to devote less attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and make Iran's "incredibly destructive" activities a priority in the Middle East. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley branded Iran the "chief culprit" of conflicts in the...

Iraqi forces retook two more neighborhoods in west Mosul on Thursday, tightening the noose around extremists holed up in the Old City, commanders said. "The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighborhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told...