Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore a day earlier buried their loved ones and demanded the government publicly hang the masterminds of the attack. Families and residents in the bustling eastern city...

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had ended a program to support rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad because it was "massive, dangerous, and wasteful." The comments came days after General Tony Thomas, the head of US special operations confirmed that the...

President Donald Trump has assailed The Washington Post in connection with a story about the termination of U.S. efforts to aid rebels fighting to oust Syria's President Bashar Assad. In a post on his Twitter account Monday, Trump said, "The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my...

 Venezuela's angry opposition is pushing for a boycott of an upcoming vote that it dismisses as a ploy by President Nicolas Maduro to cling to power. Ahead of next Sunday's election for a 500-plus member assembly to rewrite the constitution and give the president more power, the...

The Australian foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the United Nations refugee agency's allegation that her government reneged on a deal to resettle some refugees who attempted to reach Australia by boat. The UNHCR said on Monday it had agreed to facilitate a deal in which the United States...

A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi nationals facing deportation in a closely watched case. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith granted a preliminary injunction requested...

Manchester United defeated Real Madrid in an ugly penalty shootout Sunday with seven players failing to convert from the spot after their International Champions Cup match ended 1-1 in northern California. United, who won the shootout 2-1, took the lead just before halftime when Anthony...

Jordan's King Abdullah II Monday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove new security measures at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site. Speaking to Netanyahu by phone, the king stressed "the need to find an immediate solution and remove the reasons for the ongoing crisis at the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has told U2 frontman Bono that France will respect its commitment to boost development aid, Bono told reporters after meeting Macron in Paris. The rock singer, who heads the ONE anti-poverty foundation, said Macron had confirmed France would boost its aid...

United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the Jerusalem mosque crisis, which he said threatens to have "potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City." Israel installed metal detectors at entry points to...

Donald Trump's war of words against his attorney general and one-time ally Jeff Sessions escalated Monday, raising speculation the president may be preparing the ground to replace him. Trump took to Twitter to declare his top lawyer "beleaguered" as he wondered out loud why Sessions was not...

Libya's coastguard rescued an estimated 278 migrants including women and children Monday off the shores of two different towns west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said. The coastal towns to the west of Tripoli - Zawiya, Sabratha, and Zuwarah - are common departure points for migrants...

( The New Arab )- Israel has reportedly closed its embassy and consulate in Turkey amid rising tensions over the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem. The Israeli Foreign Ministry ordered the closure of its embassy in Anakara and consulate in Istanbul as as a "precautionary" measure, Israeli news...

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, shattering a period of relative calm in Pakistan's second-largest city. The blast wrought carnage near the Lahore Technology Park in the center of the city,...

 A man armed with a chainsaw injured at least five people in Switzerland on Monday and is on the run after a rampage that police said was not "a terrorist act". Authorities were first alerted about the attack in the old quarter of Schaffhausen at 10:39 am (0839 GMT), the ATS news agency...

Jordan said Monday it was looking to question an Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanians at the Amman embassy compound, as Israel insisted he had diplomatic immunity. A Jordanian government source said Israel was "still examining the request" to quiz the guard involved in Sunday's...

Israel said on Sunday it would not remove metal detectors whose installation outside a major Jerusalem mosque has triggered the bloodiest clashes with the Palestinians in years, but could eventually reduce their use. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security Cabinet on Sunday...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to press on with his controversial drug war that has claimed thousands of lives, as he outlined his vision of an "eye-for-an-eye" justice system. Duterte devoted large chunks of his annual State of the Nation Address to pushing his...

( The Guardian )- European and African ministers are to meet in Tunis on Monday to discuss a plan to try to regularise the flow of refugees from Africa to Europe to about 20,000, coupled with a much tougher strategy to deport illegal migrants from Italy and break up smuggling rings. The plan...

Hezbollah said its forces seized a strategic valley from Sunni Muslim militants on Monday, the latest advance in an offensive to oust jihadists from their last foothold along the Syria-Lebanon border. The Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah said it had advanced from several directions in the Wadi...