A team of elite U.S. Green Beret commandos deployed to the Saudi Arabian border of Yemen last year to help find and destroy Houthi rebel missile caches, the New York Times reported Thursday. Since Yemen's brutal conflict erupted three years ago, Houthi rebels have fired multiple...

An Israeli court Thursday convicted an Arab poet of online incitement to terrorism for using a poem as the soundtrack to images of Palestinians in violent confrontations with Israeli troops. Dareen Tatour, 36, posted to Facebook and YouTube a video of herself reading out her poem...

Iran warned Thursday that it will quit a landmark nuclear deal with world powers if President Donald Trump pulls the United States out of the accord. "If the United States withdraws from the nuclear deal, then we will not stay in it," Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign policy advisor to...

Libya's Foreign Minister Mohammad Taher Siala discussed the conflict in his country with the secretary of Russia's security council on Thursday in Moscow, the council said. Siala and Nikolai Patrushev also discussed counter-terrorism measures, the statement said.

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday said his lawyer Michael Cohen did not use presidential campaign funds to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a contract that he said was aimed at stopping the adult-film star from making "false and extortionist accusations" about an affair. "Money from the...

The Arab League says it supports Morocco's decision to sever ties with Iran over its alleged support for the Polisario Front in the disputed Western Sahara. Tehran has denied supporting the pro-independence group. The spokesman for the Arab League's secretary-general Mahmoud Afifi said late...

Turkey's inflation rate edged up to almost 11 percent in April, official statistics showed Thursday, adding to fears that the economy is overheating less than two months ahead of elections. Consumer prices rose 10.85 percent in April from the same month the year earlier, the Turkish...

A 19-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers during protests and clashes along the Gaza border last week died from his wounds Thursday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said. The death of Anas Abu Aser brings the toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since...

The EU Thursday laid out a stark warning that a sudden rise in trade protectionism was the biggest threat to growth in Europe, as it confirmed its solid economic projections for 2018 and 2019. "The biggest risk to this rosy outlook is protectionism, which must not become the new normal:...

Saudi Arabia has confirmed the arrival of a prisoner who was sent back to the kingdom from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to serve out the remainder of his 13-year sentence. Ahmad Mohammad al-Darbi is the first detainee to leave the U.S. base in Cuba since President Donald Trump...

President Donald Trump's lead lawyer dealing with an ongoing special counsel probe into Russia will resign from his post, the White House announced Wednesday. Ty Cobb plans to retire at the end of the month, the White House said in a brief one-sentence statement. Spokeswoman Sarah...

Journalists in Myanmar work under immense pressure by the government which restricts fair reportage of the Rohingya crisis, Anadolu Agency’s editor-in-chief of foreign language services said on Wednesday. Speaking at "Rohingya Crisis and Solutions”, an international conference in...

Myanmar said Wednesday it has agreed to the involvement of United Nations agencies in repatriating Rohingya refugees who have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. Citing State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, a state-owned newspaper reported Wednesday that the government is discussing signing a...

Iranian security forces on Wednesday banned Sheikh Abdul Hamid Ismail Zahi, a prominent Sunni preacher from the city of Zahedan, from traveling to Qatar, according to an Iranian media source.  Mahmud Barhuwayi Nejad, editor of the Balochistan Iran magazine, confirmed the travel ban...

Air France is cutting its Joon subsidiary's service between Paris and Tehran to the summer season only, blaming a poor economic performance over two years in operation. "Air France has decided to adapt its programme to better match demand," a spokeswoman said by email, adding that the...

U.S. and Israeli officials on Wednesday slammed remarks by the Palestinian president about the causes of 20th century anti-Semitism in Europe. In remarks that were part of a lengthy speech to the PLO parliament on Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said it was the Jews' "social...

Armenia's parliament will hold another vote for the post of prime minister May 8, its press service said Wednesday, after a vote Tuesday failed to secure a majority for opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan. Pashinyan was the only candidate in the election, which followed weeks of protests...

Iran Wednesday denied that it was involved in a weapons delivery to the Polisario Front movement seeking independence for Western Sahara after Morocco cut diplomatic ties with Tehran over the allegations. "Remarks attributed to the foreign minister of Morocco about cooperation between...

A group of militants including a suicide bomber targeted the offices of the Libyan electoral commission in Tripoli Wednesday, a spokesman said. The assailants entered the offices and set them on fire, said spokesman Khaled Amar, who fled the building with other staff when it was...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has ruled out the possibility of early elections in June, preferring instead to have a new government in place to pass the 2019 budget, a presidential palace source said Wednesday. On Monday, the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement called...