European travel stocks fell sharply in early trading on Friday after a deadly attack in tourist hotspot Barcelona, with investors also increasingly concerned the Trump administration was fraying at the seams. As a global sell-off spread, the pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.9 percent by...

(Eqtsad)- The northern Homs countryside has seen an unprecedented rise in the prices of food, commercial goods and fuel over the past week. The rise in prices preceded the agreement to reduce escalation that went into force three weeks ago.  Based on the agreement, two...

Twenty-six French citizens were injured in Thursday's attack in Barcelona, with at least 11 of them in serious condition, the French Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement. The statement added that French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian would visit Barcelona later on Friday...

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove intelligence agents from his home. However, his demand to face trial - he has never been charged since being placed under house arrest in...

Law enforcement in major U.S. cities were on alert Thursday after a terror attack killed at least 13 victims in Spain and injured dozens more. Public information officers in New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles told Anadolu Agency they were monitoring the situation in Barcelona but that...

A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack. Police said they had arrested a man linked to the attack in the heart of the city, but did not identify him...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted Thursday that America is ready to respond to any North Korean threat, after a senior White House official had dismissed talk of a "military option." "In close collaboration with our allies, there are strong military consequences if the DPRK...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said on Thursday a unit of the security forces committed "abuses" against civilians during the offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) insurgents from the city of Mosul. His government began an investigation in May into a report by German newsmagazine Der...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black...

The United Nations hopes for "serious negotiation" between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November this year, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. "Regarding the [Syrian] government, we are counting very much on Russia,...

Copenhagen police say they are looking for a body in the case of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip on a home-built submarine. Chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen says "it is our clear presumption that we are looking for a dead person." Moeller Jensen said in a YouTube clip...

The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed and several others wounded in a battle with Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that several Afghan forces were also wounded in the fighting on Wednesday in the Achin district of the Nangarhar...

A multi-agency team scoured the ocean off Hawaii for five soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that went down during a nighttime training exercise. The UH-60 Black Hawk went missing when another Army helicopter training with it lost visual and radio contact about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt....

Turkey's EU minister said on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments about halting the expansion of a customs union between Ankara and the European Union harmed the credibility of the bloc. Merkel said on Wednesday there would be no expansion of the customs union and "no...

Britain is confident it will make "sufficient progress" in negotiations with the European Union by October to move on to the next phase of the talks and discuss future ties with the bloc, the government said on Thursday. After a slow start to negotiations to unravel more than 40 years of...

President Donald Trump’s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out. A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday, a day after he blamed white...

A man held a woman hostage at a radio station in the Netherlands for a little more than an hour on Thursday before he released her and was arrested, Dutch police said. A police spokeswoman told Reuters the woman had suffered no serious injury but had been taken to an ambulance for...

A suicide bomber killed a Hamas guard in southern Gaza on Thursday, officials said, in what was seen as a rare Islamist attack against the Palestinian group that has run the impoverished enclave for a decade. The incident occurred at around 1:00 am near the Gaza Strip's lone crossing with...

Lebanese and Syrian ministers pledged to boost economic ties on Wednesday, part of a visit that has challenged the Lebanese state's policy of neutrality toward Syria's war. Government ministers from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Shi'ite Amal party arrived in Syria for a trade fair, a trip that...

Britain has said there should be no border posts or immigration checks between Ireland and the British province of Northern Ireland after Brexit, in a paper that attempts to resolve one of the most complex aspects of its departure from the European Union. Some 30,000 people cross the 500-km...