Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during Friday protests at the Gaza-Israel border, the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. It named the dead man as Ghazi Abu Mustafee, 43, and said he was shot in the head near the border fence, east of Khan Younis in the...

Britain has suspended cooperation with the United States over two Deash (ISIS) terror suspects, the government announced Friday, following concerns that they could face the death penalty. Britain said Monday it was sharing intelligence to help the United States bring to trial two...

The Israeli army has imposed a tight siege on the Palestinian village of Kubar near the West Bank city of Ramallah, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According to witnesses, Israeli forces stormed the village and raided the home of Mohamed Yousef, a local resident who was shot...

An American military plane was able to enter North Korea Friday to pick up the remains of U.S. soldiers who fought during the Korean War. Marking the 65th anniversary of the 1950-53 conflict's armistice, the Air Force transport aircraft flew from South Korea early in the morning before...

A Palestinian teenage girl, who was shot by Israeli soldiers during anti-occupation rallies on Gaza Strip, will be able to walk again, her doctor said. Meryem Abu-Matar, 16, who lives in Gaza’s Rafah city, was brought to Istanbul for medical treatment. Since March, Abu-Matar has been...

For more than three years after graduation, Karar Alaa Abdel-Wahid tried to get a stable job in the Iraqi government and in the private sector - to no avail. He once was offered a job with the Oil Ministry in his energy-rich hometown of Basra, but it came with a hefty price: he would...

An Israeli news publisher said Thursday it had fired a cartoonist who depicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as one of the pigs in George Orwell's political satire "Animal Farm." Following passage last week of a controversial law which critics say discriminates against non-Jewish...

Iraqi Airways has suspended two of its pilots for getting into a fight -- over a food tray -- during an international flight with more than 150 passengers on board. The row erupted on a flight to the capital Baghdad from the Iranian city of Mashhad, with 157 travellers on board plus...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) denied reports on Thursday that Yemen's Iranian-aligned Houthi movement had attacked Abu Dhabi airport with a drone, and said operations were unaffected. Houthi-run media said earlier that a Sammad-3 drone had launched three strikes on the facility,...

Extreme weather continued to hit the U.S. East and West coasts Wednesday with flooding ravaging much of the eastern seaboard and fires tearing through the West. On the East Coast, roughly 37 million people have been under a flood watch for the past week, according to the National Weather...

 The State Department says the United States has decided to release $195 million in military aid to Egypt after withholding the assistance last year over human rights concerns. The department says Egypt has taken steps in response to specific U.S. concerns, although there are still...

Taxi drivers from all corners of Spain drove to Barcelona to join a 2-day strike that started Wednesday in protest of the growing number of cars operating under ride-hailing apps. Uber and Cabify briefly halted service, saying some of their drivers were attacked. The taxi...

 A giant mural of a teenager who Palestinians see as a symbol of resistance has been painted on the Israeli separation wall in the occupied West Bank ahead of her expected release from prison. The roughly four-meter image near Bethlehem in the West Bank depicts Ahed Tamimi....

Turkey's president has argued against severing economic ties with Iran as the United States readies for sanctions. Speaking in Ankara, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it goes against the independence of states to cut ties with its "neighbor and strategic partner" because the U.S....

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a shooting in Toronto Sunday that killed two people and wounded 13, the group's AMAQ news agency said Wednesday. The attacker "was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the...

The Iran-aligned armed Houthi movement targeted a Saudi Arabian warship off the western coast of Yemen, the group's Al Masirah TV said Wednesday. "The naval force targets the Saudi Dammam ship," the broadcaster wrote on its Twitter feed. There were no immediate reports of damage...

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that he did not pick up the phone when he was called by world leaders seeking to sway him against unilaterally declaring Jerusalem to be Israel's capital. Trump said he was "inundated" by calls from foreign leaders "imploring me, even demanding"...

South and North Korea appear to remain set for family reunions next month, despite Pyongyang's state media threatening to cancel the event. According to Seoul's Unification Ministry, the neighbors on Wednesday shared the results of their attempts to verify the availability of hundreds...

Poland's Senate approved early Wednesday a controversial bill to reform the Supreme Court in a move that critics say puts the judicial system under government control and is a threat to the country's democracy. The changes, backed by 60 senators with 30 against and one abstention, will...

Pakistanis headed to the polls early Wednesday to elect a new government for the next five years, officials and local media reported. Footage aired on local station Geo TV showed voters queuing outside polling stations in the capital Islamabad as well as in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar,...