Greek diplomats issued visas for unaccompanied minors for the purpose of organ trade, according to a former Greek foreign minister. Nikos Kotzias resigned from his post last month following a row with other Cabinet members over how to resolve the name dispute with Macedonia. In...

The U.S. will not hesitate to use military force against Iran, a State Department official said Thursday, displaying weaponry he said Tehran sent to different proxies. The agency’s representative for Iran, Brian Hook, briefed reporters at a military base in Washington regarding Iran's...

Some 152,000 displaced persons have returned to their villages in Sudan’s western North Darfur State, the country’s SUNA news agency reported Thursday. “In coordination with local and foreign organizations, North Darfur’s local government is providing assistance to returning displaced...

NATO ships are routinely patrolling the Black Sea and will continue to assess its presence in the region, the alliance’s spokesperson said in the wake of the maritime tensions between Russia and Ukraine.   Speaking to Anadolu Agency in Brussels, Oana Lungescu said that NATO has...

More than 14 million doses of vaccine for children have been delivered to Yemen’s southern city of Aden (which currently serves as the government’s interim capital), the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) said Thursday. "More than 14 million doses of measles and rubella vaccine have arrived at...

The Israeli army on Thursday wrapped up a two-month-long military exercise simulating conflict with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports. The Jerusalem Post quoted a military official as saying that the Israeli army’s Kfir Brigade had conducted the drills, which...

Ukraine's border service said Thursday it would only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea following the imposition of martial law until Dec. 26. President Petro Poroshenko earlier accused Russia's President Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex all of Ukraine and called for NATO to...

U.N.-sponsored peace talks between Yemen's warring parties are expected to start next week in Sweden, Britain's envoy to Yemen said Thursday, as Western allies press for an end to the war that has pushed the country to the verge of starvation. The United Nations is trying to reconvene...

Nigerian chief of army staff on Wednesday confirmed 39 were killed by recent Boko Haram attacks in the country's northeast. Yusuf Buratai's remarks followed the calls of the local media -- which claimed over 100 soldiers had died -- for full disclosures on the incident. In a...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Wednesday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen, thwarting efforts by the Trump administration to convince lawmakers to vote against it. Senators voted 63-37 in favor of the resolution spearheaded by...

The U.S. military says it has killed three al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in central Somalia as it continues to attack a new base of operations for the al-Qaeda-linked fighters. The U.S. Africa Command statement says Tuesday's airstrike was carried out "in the vicinity of Quy...

Saudi Arabia will give Tunisia a $500 million loan at a favourable interest rate, a source told Reuters Wednesday, a day after a visit from the Saudi crown prince that drew Tunisian protests. Hundreds of Tunisians staged the first demonstrations in the Arab world against Saudi Arabia’s...

While the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi goes against American values, Saudi Arabia is a force of stability in the Middle East, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Pompeo defended the U.S.-Saudi relationship by stressing...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled Iran on Sunday has led to power outages in some parts of next-door Iraq, the Iraqi Electricity Ministry has reported. According to a Wednesday statement released by the ministry, local electricity production was affected after Sunday’s quake ruptured a...

Israel’s Supreme Court has approved the ownership of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of 522 dunums (1,000 square meters) of Palestinian land near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Israeli media on Wednesday.  Israeli newspaper Hayom said court judges rejected an appeal...

Ivanka Trump defended her use of a private email account as she was moving into an adviser's position in her father's administration, saying that it cannot be compared to the flap over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and that "Lock her up!" doesn't apply to her....

Saudi Arabia pledged $50 million in aid Wednesday to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has been hit by the withdrawal of all U.S. funding. The announcement was made at a news conference in Riyadh by the director of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief...

Nearly 300 Rohingya Muslims, who attempted to flee Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, were temporarily detained and returned to refugee camps this month, according to local media and local government officials. A boat carrying 93 Rohingya Muslims, who left camps in Rakhine state’s capital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the most annoying campaigns against the Saudi Crown Prince's visit to Tunisia was led by the Tunisian journalists’ syndicate which mounted on its wall a vast banner depicting the prince holding a chainsaw, representing the gruesome dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi. ...

Russia has sharply increased its military presence on the border with Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on television Tuesday, warning of the threat of "full-scale war." "The number of [Russian] tanks at bases located along our border has tripled," Poroshenko said in an...