Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said Saturday that 52 of its fighters were killed as they repelled rival militias in fierce clashes in the capital Tripoli. Apart from sporadic gunfire in southern Tripoli, calm returned to the city Saturday, the first day of the Muslim holy month of...

 G7 countries will on Saturday recognize the deadlock about taking collective action on climate change as US President Donald Trump mulls his position, officials said. "The United States is evaluating its policy with regard to the climate, so the six other G7 countries will reaffirm...

A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed fighting ISIS west of the Iraqi city of Mosul, the Tehran-based Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. It is the first time Iran has announced the death of a senior commander during the operations launched in...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Hassan Rouhani held a phone call in which the two leaders stressed the need for more joint efforts to resolve the Syria crisis and discussed economic ties, the Kremlin said Saturday. The Kremlin added that Putin congratulated Rouhani on his recent...

ISIS said Saturday that its fighters had carried out a shooting that killed dozens of Egyptian Christians Friday, according to a statement from the group. "A security unit from the soldiers of the caliphate set up a checkpoint to ambush tens of Christians headed for the Saint Samuel...

Gerard Pique wants Barcelona to reward outgoing coach Luis Enrique with a ninth trophy of his three-year spell in charge in Saturday's Copa del Rey final against Alaves. Victory would see Barca lift the Cup for the third straight season under Enrique, but unlike in the past two years it...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday ended a 40-day hunger strike over their conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prisons Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, that began on April 17 and...

 Iraqi armed forces launched an operation Saturday to capture the last ISIS-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement. The Iraqi air force dropped leaflets Friday urging residents in the enclave to flee, raising fears among humanitarian groups for the safety of desperate...

A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Afghanistan on Saturday and fighting between militants and security forces left at least 36 people dead on the first day of Islam's holy Month of Ramadan. In eastern Khost province, an attacker detonated a car bomb near a soccer field...

Philippine security forces dropped more bombs Saturday on a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days, vowing no let up despite the start of Ramadan. President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law across the southern third of the Philippines in response to...

France's new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday with the two countries harboring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. Coming just three weeks after an election in which the Kremlin was widely seen as backing...

( Foreign Policy )- The United States’ coalition partners in the war against the Islamic State are responsible for at least 80 confirmed civilian deaths from airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, according to U.S. military officials. Yet none of their 12 allies will publicly concede any role in those...

The alleged hack on Qatar’s state news agency may have lasted just four hours, but the impact on already tense ties between Gulf rivals could last a lot longer.  Doha launched an inquiry and went into damage control after accusing hackers of publishing false remarks attributed to Emir...

President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism. "The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished," he said in a statement issued by his...

Enes Kanter, the Turkish NBA star whose home country has revoked his passport, on Friday expressed disdain on social media at reports that Turkey's government had issued a warrant for his arrest. "You can’t catch me. Don’t waste your breath. I will come on my own will anyway, to spit on your...

Egyptian forces hit a jihadist training camp Friday in retaliation for an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians that killed at least 28 people, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said. In a televised address to Egypt's people, the former army chief said: "Before we spoke to you today, we...

At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their base in Kandahar, officials said Friday, in the third major insurgent assault this week on the military in the southern province. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday comes after hundreds of...

The United Nations warned Friday that an energy crisis in the Gaza Strip was severely affecting water supplies and health services, and could trigger an outbreak of violence. UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas movement,...

 At least five people were killed in fierce clashes on Friday between rival armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli, seat of a UN-backed unity government, a hospital official said. The city has been gripped by a power struggle between dozens of militias since a NATO-backed uprising...

A Tunisian court held its first public hearing Friday in the trial of 26 people in connection with a 2015 extremist beach massacre that killed dozens of foreign tourists. A student armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades went on a rampage in the Port el-Kantaoui resort near...