Former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will return to Old Trafford as caretaker manager until the end of the season, the Premier League club said Wednesday. United sacked manager Jose Mourinho on Tuesday after the sixth-placed side made their worst start to a season for...

Yemen's warring parties have exchanged lists with a total of 16,000 names of people believed to be detained as part of a prisoner swap deal signed last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. Forty days after the Dec. 11 signing, the ICRC will have 10 days to...

A public opinion poll shows that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would lose to the leader of Hamas if elections were held today. The poll conducted by prominent pollster Khalil Shikaki and released Tuesday shows that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would win with 49 percent to Abbas' 42...

The United States hopes Lebanon's next government will work with it on areas of mutual interest, a State Department official said on Tuesday, and expressed concern over Hezbollah's rising clout in the country. "We hope Lebanon's next government will build a stable and secure Lebanon...

The sentencing for former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, scheduled for Tuesday morning, was unexpectedly postponed after a federal judge said Flynn’s conduct left him with “disgust,” and indicated he was considering a prison sentence — even though prosecutors had recommended no...

One of Libya's largest oil fields has been out of production for more than a week, the state-owned National Oil Corporation said Tuesday, blaming a militia for the shutdown. The NOC said early last week that an armed group had seized the Sharara site, prompting it to declare "force...

Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday its 2019 budget projecting a $35 billion shortfall, amounting to a deficit for the sixth year in a row due to low oil prices. The budget foresees spending at $295 billion, the largest in the oil-rich kingdom's history, while revenues, mostly from oil, are...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday said he had no plans to withdraw his country’s forces from war-torn Yemen. Al-Bashir made the assertion two days after visiting Damascus and meeting with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad -- becoming the first Arab head of state to do so...

A team including members of Yemen's warring sides will be dispatched within a day to monitor a truce deal in Hodeida city, a United Nations official said Tuesday. "The Redeployment Coordination Committee [RCC] is expected to start its work within the next 24 hours," the official, who...

Russia, Iran and Turkey are nearing agreement on the composition of a Syria committee that could pave the way for the drafting of a new constitution and for elections after a devastating civil war, diplomats said Tuesday. The foreign ministers of the three nations, who support opposing...

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has left the club with immediate effect following a dismal start to the season, the Premier League side announced Tuesday. United have made their worst start to a league season in 28 years and were beaten 3-1 by arch-rivals Liverpoool Sunday in...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said his country had helped the U.S. bring Afghan Taliban to the negotiation table. "Pakistan has helped in the dialogue between Taliban and the U.S. in Abu Dhabi. Let us pray that this leads to peace and ends almost three decades of suffering of the...

Jewish settlers early Tuesday raided a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and vandalized a mosque. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a group of settlers raided Yasuf village in Salfit province and spray-painted slogans in Hebrew on the walls of a local mosque and...

Nigeria’s president on Monday expressed concerns over the role that Amnesty International is playing in the country's counterinsurgency operations -- the first such caution from the president to the rights watchdog. “It often appears as if the Nigerian government is fighting two wars on...

CBS announced Monday that former CEO Les Moonves will not receive his $120 million severance package after the board determined he failed to fully cooperate with an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations. A lawyer for Moonves rejected the decision as “baseless” but did not say...

U.S. President Donald Trump Monday called on the Federal Reserve not to raise interest rates, one day before a meeting at which policymakers are widely expected to do so. "It is incredible that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us,...

Bitcoin rose sharply Monday, climbing above $3,400 in a move traders ascribed to heavy buying on Japan and Hong Kong-based exchanges. The original cryptocurrency jumped as much as 11 percent on the Bitstamp platform and was headed for its biggest daily rise since Nov. 28....

Iran President Hassan Rouhani's son-in-law resigned Monday just two days after his appointment as head of Iran's geological survey sparked accusations of nepotism, official news agency IRNA reported. Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani's daughter...

A senior military commander was killed in a mortar attack by Houthi rebels east of Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to a military spokesman on Monday.  Brigadier-General Taher Hamid al-Sharabi was killed when a shell struck Nahm district, east of Sanaa, Colonel Abdul Basset al-Bahar...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has called for better engagement among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to solve regional crises.  "We are not encouraging the unilateral measures against any country. Sanctions are not the way forward to solve a...