A US warplane shot down an Iran-made drone operated by pro-regime forces in southern Syria early Tuesday, officials said, the second such incident in less than two weeks. The US-led coalition said in a statement that an F-15E Strike Eagle jet destroyed the Shaheed-129 drone around 12:30 am...

Egyptian jets bombed a gathering site of Sinai-based Islamist militants, killing 12 and destroying several four-wheel-drive vehicles, the military said on Tuesday. An Islamist insurgency in the rugged, thinly populated Sinai Peninsula has gained pace since the military overthrew President...

 A car bomber blew himself up overnight in a failed attack near a security checkpoint outside the Libyan oil port of Es Sider, a security source and a witness said on Tuesday. Security officials did not say who they thought was behind the attempted attack, which took place a few...

( The Guardian )- Australia has suspended air combat missions over Syria after Russia threatened that it would treat any plane from the US-led coalition flying west of the Euphrates river as a potential target. Russia said it was responding to US planes shooting down a Syrian air force jet...

 Moroccan authorities have arrested more activists involved in the country's biggest political protests since the "Arab Spring", lawyers and rights groups said on Tuesday. For months, demonstrators have taken to the streets around the northern city of Al-Hoceima to vent frustration over...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday she was prepared to consider new French President Emmanuel Macron's proposals for a shake-up of the eurozone. Speaking to business leaders in Berlin, Merkel acknowledged that the "economic cohesion of the eurozone member states leaves something to...

 Investigators have found a stash of weapons at the home of a man killed while ramming a car loaded with guns and a gas canister into a police van on Paris's Champs-Elysees, a source close to the probe said Tuesday. Adam Dzaziri, a 31-year-old who had been on a watchlist for radical...

Kabul authorities Tuesday demolished a sit-in camp erected to protest spiraling insecurity, triggering street clashes that left at least one demonstrator dead in the latest bout of violence to shake the city. Tensions have been high in Kabul since a truck bomb on May 31 killed more than 150...

Iraq and Saudi Arabia are setting up a coordination council to upgrade strategic ties, a joint statement said on Tuesday, as part of an attempt to heal troubled relations between the Arab neighbors. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with Saudi King Salman a day earlier on the first leg...

Otto Warmbier, the US student released in a coma last week after nearly 18 months in detention in North Korea, died on Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to slam the "brutal regime" in Pyongyang. The 22-year-old was medically evacuated to the United States last Tuesday, suffering from...

A “terrorist” bomb attack in a Shiite village in Bahrain has killed a policeman and wounded two others, the Interior Ministry in the Gulf kingdom said Monday. The attack late Sunday occurred in Diraz, west of Manama, the ministry said on its Twitter account. Witnesses said they heard a loud...

British authorities and Islamic leaders moved swiftly to ease concerns in the Muslim community after a man plowed a large van into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring at least nine people. British media named the suspect as Darren Osborne, 47-year-old...

An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance claimed responsibility Monday for an attack on a tourist resort near Mali's capital that killed five people, in a statement carried by Mauritanian news agencies and posted on social media. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of jihadist...

Brazil's government has halted exports of tear gas for use in Venezuela due to violent repression of protests there, two sources familiar with the decision said on Monday, a move that added to the diplomatic isolation of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. Brazil's Defense Ministry and...

A fire broke out on the roof of a nuclear reactor at the Bugey plant in central-eastern France, the country's nuclear regulator ASN said on Monday. The fire began at 13:26 GMT at the plant's nuclear reactor number 5, which is operated by EDF and located 35 kilometers from the city of Lyon,...

U.S. President Donald Trump's speech on Cuba was a "grotesque spectacle," but the island's government will continue working towards better relations with the majority of Americans who back detente, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Monday. Trump announced a partial rollback of...

An Iraqi journalist was killed and three French reporters were wounded after a mine exploded in Mosul, where they were covering an advance by Iraqi forces against ISIS militants, France 2 television and a diplomatic source said on Monday. The television network said Iraqi journalist...

A driver appeared to deliberately crash his car into a police van on the French capital's Champs Elysees avenue on Monday, the interior ministry said. The Paris prosecutor's anti-terrorism unit said it had opened an investigation. Read More:  Gunfire on aid convoy wounds one...

Seventy-nine people are dead or missing and presumed dead following a devastating blaze in a London tower block, police said Monday, as Britain held a minute's silence for the victims. "I'm afraid to say there are now 79 people that we believe are either dead or missing and I sadly have to...

 Israel on Monday began reducing its electricity supplies to the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip already suffering from insufficient flow, electricity authorities on both sides said. Israel "began to reduce by eight megawatts flow to electricity lines" into the Palestinian...