The leader of the wave of protests that has pushed Armenia into a political crisis says he has met with the country's president. Nikol Pashinian said Sunday that he hopes President Armen Sarkisian will support Pashinian's bid to become prime minister. The parliament is to choose a new...

At least 15 African migrants died Sunday when their boat trying to reach Europe capsized off the Algerian coast, a coast guard official said. Coast guard and civil protection authorities rescued 19 of 34 people on board, state news agency APS said. The boat sank off the coast of...

State run Saudi Aramco, the world's top oil company, said Sunday it has appointed five new members to its board including a female executive, a milestone for Saudi Arabia and the oil industry where there are few women executives. The appointments come as the Saudi government plans to...

 North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite U.S. weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, as Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime. The reported pledge from the North's leader...

An Afghan official says a group of children set off an unexploded mortar round in a residential area in the eastern Nangarhar province, causing a blast that killed a woman and two children. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says another seven children were...

Uganda security forces said they have killed two people and arrested 36 others following a raid in a mosque in a Kampala suburb. Addressing reporters Saturday afternoon, Ugandan counterterrorism police director Abas Byakagaba explained they were following what they described as a key...

New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday on the first stop of his hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as decisions on the Iran nuclear deal and a review of the U.S. role in Syria loom large. A State Department official said the visit to Riyadh,...

Former Turkish head of state Abdullah Gul on Saturday ruled out running for the presidency in June, dousing fevered speculation he would challenge incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The polls are significant because under constitutional changes approved in an April 2017 referendum, Turkey...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre,...

Armenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan Saturday rallied support for his bid to become prime minister following the resignation of veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian as a major opposition party readied its choice. Pashinyan was to hold anti-government rallies in Armenia's third largest city...

 A Taliban suicide bomber attacked an army base in southern Helmand province Saturday killing four civilians and two soldiers, officials said. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said three civilians and two soldiers were wounded in the attack in Nad Ali...

Yemeni security forces said they killed a senior Daesh (ISIS) commander in a gunbattle in the southern city of Aden Saturday, dealing a blow to the group's powerful Yemen branch. Saleh Nasser Fadhl al-Bakshi held the title of "Prince" for the Aden area in the militant group's Yemen...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reiterated Friday that Israel will not allow Iran to establish a foothold in Syria that would pose a threat to his country. "What our problem is and what we will not allow is for Iranians to establish a base in Syria against Israel," Lieberman...

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford spoke with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar over the phone on Friday, according to the Pentagon.  "The two leaders discussed the current security environment in Syria and the Middle East in addition to other mutual items...

President Donald Trump said Friday he is considering traveling to Israel next month to open the new U.S. embassy, which he controversially ordered moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. "I may go. I'm very proud of it," he said at a White House press conference alongside German Chancellor...

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead three protesters along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medics said, hours after the United Nations human rights chief criticized Israel for using “excessive force” against demonstrators. Israeli troops have killed 41 Palestinians and wounded...

New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump has not taken a decision on whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal but was not likely to keep to it without substantial changes. "There's been no decision, so the team is working and I am sure we will have lots of...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday warned of the "seriousness of U.S. concerns" in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart in Brussels over Ankara's decision to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries, which are not compatible with NATO's defenses. "The secretary...

At least 50 Palestinians on Friday were injured by the Israeli army amid ongoing demonstrations on the Gaza Strip’s eastern border, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry also reported that four Palestinian medics had suffered respiratory problems after Israeli...

Saudi air defenses on Friday intercepted a “ballistic missile” fired towards the kingdom’s southern Jazan region, according to Saudi television channel Al-Ekhbariya. “Air defenses intercepted a missile fired towards Jazan by Yemen’s Houthi militia group,” the broadcaster reported...