The EU is set to re-commit itself to "our common future" at a summit marking its 60th anniversary, defying Brexit and growing euroskepticism, according to a draft declaration. They also vow to work for "even greater unity" while allowing "different paces and intensity" of cooperation – a...

Two senior Yemen rebels survived a Saudi-led coalition air raid on their convoy in the southwestern province of Taiz Saturday that killed eight of their guards, military and medical sources said. The attacked targeted a convoy carrying Abdu Al-Jundi, who was appointed as the governor of Taiz...

Turkish authorities have detained 740 people for suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) over the last three days, state media reported on Saturday citing an Interior Ministry source. Authorities carried out 36 raids during the three-day period, seizing equipment,...

The world's financial leaders failed to reach a compromise deal to endorse free trade on Saturday, backtracking on past commitments to keep trade open and reject protectionism, the communique of G20 finance ministers and central bankers showed. Making only a token reference for the need to...

A quartet of international groups said Saturday it supported efforts by Libya's unity government to assert control over Tripoli after days of fighting with rival militias. The Cairo meeting by representatives of the United Nations, European Union, Arab League and African Union came a day...

Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul Saturday, inching towards the mosque where ISIS proclaimed its "caliphate" in 2014, a spokesman said. Commanders said that progress in the densely populated warren of alleyways was slow but that government forces had made new...

Turkish leaders, soldiers and flag-waving spectators are commemorating a World War I campaign in which Ottoman armies held off an Allied expeditionary force, a bloody event that helps to underpin staunch nationalism in Turkey today. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday attended a ceremony...

A Yemeni rebel missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia late Friday, a Saudi-led coalition said, as the death toll from a rebel attack on a Yemeni army camp rose to 32. The rebels' Saba news agency said the missile was aimed at offices of Saudi oil giant Aramco in the town of Jizan. The...

Hundreds of South Koreans protested Saturday against the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a day after the visiting U.S. Secretary of State reiterated that its installation would go ahead. Rex Tillerson said in Seoul Friday that the United States and South Korea would "proceed...

 In the former shipbuilding hub of Hartlepool, traditional bastion of the centre-left Labour Party, lifelong supporter Stan grumbles that the party leaders have "lost their way totally". Like seven out of 10 voters in this post-industrial town in northeastern England, Stan, a...

The Trump administration Friday appealed a Maryland court's block of its revised travel ban, aiming to reinstate the temporary halt to immigrants and visitor arrivals from six majority Muslim countries. The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal with the district court in Greenbelt,...

At least 40 Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen late on Thursday when a helicopter attacked the boat they were traveling in, the United Nations refugee agency said. Mohamed al-Alay, a coast guard officer in the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah area, told Reuters the refugees,...

The U.S. government took the legal battle over President Donald Trump's travel ban to a higher court on Friday, saying it would appeal against a federal judge's decision that struck down parts of the ban on the day it was set to go into effect. The Department of Justice said in a court...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing on Saturday for his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program, trade and South China Sea territorial disputes. Tillerson's visit followed his remarks in South Korea on Friday in...

Morocco’s king Friday appointed a new prime minister to end a political deadlock that left the North African country without a government for five months, the royal court said. King Mohammad VI named Saadeddine Othmani, a former foreign minister who belongs to the Islamist Justice and...

(Haaretz)- Israel's ambassador to Russia has been called in by the Russian Foreign Ministry for clarifications Friday after Israel's air force attacked in Syria overnight, a statement by Moscow said. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the statement. Ambassador Gary Koren, who filed his...

Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Friday shot dead a Palestinian teenager during clashes near the city of Hebron, Palestinian officials said. The army said soldiers opened fire at assailants throwing petrol bombs at Israeli drivers near Arroub refugee camp and that one of them was...

Gunmen opened fire in the Libyan capital on Friday as hundreds of people demonstrated against the presence of militias in Tripoli, where armed groups are key power brokers, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of casualties and the identities of the gunmen were not clear, but the...

President Trump refused to back off his unfounded allegations that former president Barack Obama last year wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower when asked about the subject during a joint news conference Friday with German chancellor Angela Merkel. After a German reporter asked Trump about...

Moroccan authorities said on Friday they had arrested 15 people suspected of ties with ISIS in the latest raid officials say targetted militant networks. The suspects had been active in Casablanca, Marrakech, Tangiers, and Agadir, among other cities, and were involved in inciting or...