France shares Israel's concerns at the arming of Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, President Emmanuel Macron told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after their first formal meeting in Paris on Sunday. Tensions have risen between Hezbollah and its longtime foe Israel since Donald...

One person was killed and 50 people were injured in clashes on Sunday as security forces tried to evict squatters from a Nile island, the government and witnesses said. The incident on Warraq island in Cairo came amid a government campaign to remove encroachments from state property and...

Ruthless Roger Federer thrashed suffering Croat Marin Cilic 6-3 6-1 6-4 to become the first man to win eight Wimbledon singles crowns on Sunday, five years after landing his seventh. The Swiss maestro, appearing in his 11th Wimbledon final, was challenged early on but once he broke a nervous...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says a dispute with Turkey over a visit by lawmakers to air crews at a NATO base is "decidedly unfortunate" and Berlin will work with NATO to defuse it. Ankara blocked a visit planned Monday to German troops serving on AWACS surveillance planes in Konya. It...

Security forces killed nine militants in the Sinai Peninsula and destroyed 15 vehicles transporting weapons into Egypt across its western border, the military said in statements on Sunday. The "extremists" were killed in two separate incidents in the middle Sinai, but the military did not...

Turkish authorities detained the editor of a regional newspaper over a column she wrote criticising the government for exaggerating the importance of last year's coup attempt, the newspaper said. Yeliz Koray, editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper in the northwestern province of Izmit, was...

Israeli ministers gave initial approval Sunday to a bill aimed at making it more difficult for the government to hand the Palestinians parts of Jerusalem as part of a future peace deal. The bill, proposed by Shuli Moalem-Refaeli of the far-right Jewish Home, determines that any ceding of...

 NATO's Secretary General spoke to the Turkish and German foreign ministers last week to urge them to resolve their differences over visits to Turkish air bases, part of a wider row between the two allies. Germany has refused to extradite asylum seekers Turkey says were involved in last...

Five Yemeni soldiers were killed and three wounded Sunday when gunmen suspected of ties to Al-Qaeda opened fire on a military checkpoint, an army source said. The source said the gunmen managed to escape after the attack on the checkpoint in the northeast of Shabwa province, a southern...

A defiant President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stepped up his attack on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passes it. Erdogan, who was at the opening ceremony for a memorial dedicated to the roughly 250 people who...

Turkey's main opposition party says the government is blocking a full investigation into last summer's failed coup attempt. Bulent Tezcan, the spokesman of the Republican People's Party, said the government was using the commemorations for the anniversary of the failed July 15, 2016, coup to...

British police have charged a teenager with a spate of London acid attacks, as authorities consider whether tougher sentences would curb a spike in assaults with corrosive liquids. The Metropolitan Police force says a 16-year-old boy faces 15 charges, including grievous bodily harm. The boy,...

Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases newspapers even broke with tradition and portrayed Mirzakhani without her hair covered by a hijab --...

France is seeking to use Brexit to weaken the City of London, the British finance sector's European Union pointman warned in a leaked report published Sunday. "They are crystal clear about their underlying objective: the weakening of Britain, the ongoing degradation of the City of London,"...

Israeli forces killed a suspected Palestinian militant they were seeking to arrest after he shot at them in the occupied West Bank, police and the military said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was suspected of carrying out two shooting attacks in the West Bank on Saturday and...

Israel will reopen the Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound on Sunday, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, after the holy site had been shut down following a deadly shooting. On Friday, three Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen on the...

Donald Trump's presidential re-election campaign made a $50,000 payment in June to the law office now representing Donald Trump Jr. more than a week before revelations that the president's son had met with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. The payment to the Law Offices of Alan S....

Benghazi's international airport officially reopened for commercial flights amid a heavy security presence on Saturday after a three-year closure due to fighting in the city. The first outward bound flights from Benina Airport were to the capital, Tripoli, to Amman, Jordan, and to the...

( The New Arab )- There was a smell of death in Mosul's Old City when Ayman Hashem came back this week to see what happened to his home. His neighbourhood was unrecognisable.  "All that's left is rubble and the bodies of families trapped underneath," the 23-year-old said. He flipped...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told voters on Saturday that Britain's decision to leave the European Union and France's election of President Emmanuel Macron had changed her view on the bloc, adding it was worth fighting for a stronger Europe. Merkel's comments, made in a speech in the...