Palestinian resistance movement Hamas can govern the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian unity government allows it to do so, a senior Hamas official said Saturday. “There is clear laziness," Musa Abu Marzuq, deputy leader of the Hamas political...

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Ezidi fighters managed to capture 40 ISIL members and kill another 15 in the northern governorate of Ninawa on Saturday, an Ezidi commander has said. “ Peshmerga forces supported Ezidi fighters who detained 40...

By Béji Caïd Essebsi is president-elect of Tunisia. Tunisia’s extraordinary political experience since the Arab Spring stands as a testimony to the openness, tolerance and moderation that Tunisians owe to their 3,000-year history as a Mediterranean state crisscrossed by...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has detained a senior party official it accused of spying for Israel and “sabotaging security operations” abroad, a source close to the movement said on Thursday. “Three months ago, Hezbollah’s security apparatus detained a man named Mohammad...