The US Marine Corps said Saturday that a major search and rescue operation was underway for three missing service members following a "mishap" involving an American military aircraft off the Australian coast. US Marines based in Japan said "search and rescue operations continue for three...

 Security forces surrounded the entrance to Venezuela's chief prosecutor's office Saturday ahead of a session of the newly installed constitutional assembly that is expected to debate removing the onetime loyalist turned arch government critic. Luisa Ortega denounced what she called a...

Jordan's King Abdullah II is to meet Monday with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on his first visit to Ramallah in five years, a Palestinian official said. Mohammed Shtayyeh, a top official in the Fatah party of Abbas, told AFP Saturday that the two leaders would discuss efforts to revive...

The publisher of Germany's Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag newspapers has filed a formal complaint at the European Court of Justice about Turkey's detention of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel since February, the newspaper reported Saturday. Turkish authorities arrested Yucel in February...

The Lebanese army will not coordinate with the Syrian army to fight against Islamic State in the Lebanese-Syrian border zone, a military source told Reuters on Saturday, rejecting a local media report of direct military cooperation between the two. The source said the Lebanese army had the...

Turkish news agencies say the country has increased its military presence along its southern border against threats from Kurdish militants in war-torn northern Syria. The official Anadolu news agency said Saturday that Turkey dispatched artillery to Kilis province to reinforce units there....

Influential Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday called on the Baghdad government to dismantle the paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi umbrella organisation dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias. Sadr was speaking to thousands of supporters in the Iraqi capital after a rare visit at...

Venezuela former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez Friday was elected President of the "Constituent Assembly,” a new legislative body with supreme powers packed with supporters of President Nicolas Maduro. The assembly of 500-plus members, which is tasked with rewriting the crisis-wracked...

The State Department has approved the sale of US warplanes to Nigeria to aid its fight against Boko Haram militants, ending a suspension of weapons sales that followed a deadly Nigerian military strike on a refugee camp. The State Department informed Congress late Wednesday it had approved...

( The New York Times )- A South African tourist who was abducted nearly six years ago from an inn in Timbuktu, Mali, by the North African branch of Al Qaeda has been freed, officials said on Thursday. The tourist, Stephen Malcolm McGown, 42, was the last of the “Timbuktu Three,” who were...

Israeli police will conduct an "examination" into the fatal shooting of two Jordanian nationals by an embassy guard that led to ties between the two states worsening, officials said on Friday. On July 23, a security guard for the Israeli embassy in Amman shot dead a Jordanian worker who had...

A blast hit worshippers leaving a mosque in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, apparently targeting a key tribal ally of eastern based commander Khalifa Haftar for a second time, security and medical officials said. The explosion wounded at least seven people, a medical official...

Yemeni troops and armor have pushed Al-Qaeda militants out of main cities in Shabwa, residents said on Friday, regaining government control over the southern province for the first time in years. They said Al-Qaeda militants withdrew to the mountains without a fight as armored vehicles from...

An official news agency controlled by Yemen's Houthi rebels says 12 civilians have been killed in two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in a northern province. The SABA news agency reports that warplanes bombed a house in the town of al-Safra in Saada province Friday, killing nine...

Two senior Hamas members are making a rare visit to Iran, in an apparent good will mission - even as top leaders of Hamas court Egypt, which is allied with Tehran's regional rivals. The center of decision making in Hamas shifted earlier this year from the diaspora to the Gaza Strip, a...

A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday. The decision by Ari Harow to turn state's witness as part of a...

Transcripts of President Donald Trump's conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in January offer new details on how the president parried with the leaders over the politics of the border wall and refugee policy - with random asides on such subjects as drug abuse in New Hampshire....

Iraqi troops have found a mass grave in the western city of Ramadi containing the bodies of 40 men believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS), officials said Friday. It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of...

The new sanctions against Russia that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday are "more than problematic," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. Speaking in the northern German city of Wolfsburg on Friday, Gabriel criticised the United States for departing from its...

Egypt's state-run news agency says a policeman and a civilian have been killed in a drive-by shooting attack. MENA says two gunmen opened fire from a car in the town of Asna, just south of the ancient city of Luxor, the previous evening. Friday's report cited an Interior Ministry...