FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football, a move hailed by the country's sports authorities Saturday as a boost for its most popular game. "We are allowing international matches to be staged in the cities of Arbil, Basra and Karbala," FIFA president...

 Israeli forces have arrested a brother and an uncle of a Palestinian accused of killing two soldiers in a West Bank car ramming late on Friday, the army said. The alleged driver of the vehicle -- identified as Alaa Kabha, born in 1991 -- was already in custody having been detained...

KABUL (AFP)- A car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday killed at least two civilians, as the militants maintain pressure on the capital amid growing calls for peace talks. Several others were wounded in the morning rush-hour suicide blast in an industrial area of...

 A boat that sank off a Greek island while smuggling migrants or refugees left at least 14 people dead Saturday, while a search and rescue operation was ongoing to locate more people believed missing. The wooden boat was believed to have been carrying around 21 people when it sank...

Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to state media. "In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran...

Russian foreign ministry says 23 British diplomats should leave Russia within a week

The European Commission called for industry views Friday on a list of U.S. products it will subject to import tariffs, the first step toward measures to counter planned U.S. taxes on European steel and aluminum. The European Union wants to be exempted from U.S. duties of 25 percent on steel and...

The British pound recovered Friday from weakness prompted by a Russian decision to expel British diplomats, as the world rallied in support for London in a crisis sparked by the poisoning of a double agent, analysts said. World stocks rose slightly at the end of a volatile week as fears...

The Saudi government is expected to take a 35-percent stake in construction giant Saudi Binladin Group as part of a financial settlement with state authorities, sources told Reuters Thursday. The figure – previously unknown – was confirmed by four sources familiar with the matter. It...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump is negotiating with a number of countries over the possibility of providing exemptions to new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the White House said Friday. "He's ... working with a number of individual countries and negotiating on...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- Russia's ambassador to London said he had received a diplomatic note informing him that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are in a critical condition, but that Britain was "hiding" further details, RIA news agency reported Friday. Alexander Yakovenko told the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- White House Chief of Staff John Kelly assured aides to President Donald Trump Friday that no immediate personnel changes are coming as he sought to tamp down a wave of uncertainty generated by persistent evidence Trump wants more turnover. Days after firing U.S....

ISTANBUL (Reuters)- A Turkish penal court ordered the release of a journalist jailed over alleged ties to a failed coup, the private broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Friday. Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, is to be released under judicial control and...

A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel's Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of...

 British police launched a murder probe Friday into the death of Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov in London, after a post-mortem found he died from "compression to the neck." "A murder investigation has been launched following the results of a post-mortem into the death of...

  Egyptians abroad began voting Friday, ten days before polls open at home in a presidential election that President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is effectively guaranteed to win, but in which turnout could provide an indication of his popularity. The former army chief's only challenger,...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- The Kremlin said Friday that British accusations that President Vladimir Putin was involved in a nerve agent attack in England were shocking and unforgivable, TASS news agency reported. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said earlier on Friday that it was...

NEW DELHI (AFP)- India's state-run carrier Air India said Friday it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel. "The Air India flights to Israel will start from March 22. The flights will take...

LONDON (AFP)- An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was on Friday found guilty of attempted murder over the botched bombing of a rush-hour London Underground train that injured 30 people. "The prosecution argued that Ahmed Hassan made this homemade bomb with the aim of indiscriminately...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP)- Iraq's Kurdish region has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Kurdish officials delivered speeches to a crowd of hundreds gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in...