A powerful earthquake struck west of Indonesia’s Sumatra island Wednesday, a National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson told Anadolu Agency. "[It has] tsunami potential," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. The National Disaster Management Agency recorded the earthquake as having a magnitude of 8.3...

Foreign military intervention in Libya will only exacerbate the war-torn country’s already dire humanitarian crisis, according to UN deputy envoy to Libya Ali al-Zaatari. ​ In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Zaatari said that the Libyan crisis appeared to be worsening. "Any...

The Arab Gulf countries have agreed to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group, but they are still studying ways to do that, undersecretary of Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hamad al-Amir told Al Arabiya on Wednesday. Gulf Cooperation Countries, which include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,...

Hezbollah said on Tuesday that Lebanon had been pushed into a new phase of political conflict by Saudi Arabia since its decision to halt an aid package to the Lebanese army, but the country was not on the brink of civil war. "It is clear that since ... the announcement to halt...