Israeli human rights groups are to petition the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking it to strike down a new law allowing expropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settlers. Adalah said that it and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center would file the request on Wednesday...

Impeached President Park Geun-hye’s office on Wednesday threatened to withhold cooperation from prosecutors investigating her after details of their inquiry were leaked, local media reported. News reports claimed earlier that investigators would question Park over abuse of power allegations...

Iran is displaying hundreds of ancient and Persian artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,500 years and all of them recently brought back home from museums and collections in Western countries. Mohammad Hassan Talebian, deputy head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism...

Support for Scottish independence rose last month after British Prime Minister Theresa May came out in favor of Britain making a clean break with the European Union, a BMG survey for Herald Scotland showed on Wednesday. It indicated 49 percent of Scots now support independence - a 3 point...

The Turkish army and allied Syrian rebels have captured the western outskirts of the ISIS-held city of al-Bab, a rebel official and war monitor said on Wednesday, escalating their assault as the Syrian army also advanced on the city. "With last night's assault, ISIS' defenses have been...

(The Independent)- Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric was used against him by state lawyers during an appeals court hearing into the President's controversial hardline immigration ban. The attorneys-general of Washington and Minnesota have claimed Mr Trump acted in "bad faith in an effort...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call overnight to act together regarding the Islamic State controlled Syrian towns of al-Bab and Raqqa, Turkish presidential sources said on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed issues including a safe zone in...

Mexicans approve of President Enrique Pena Nieto's decision to withdraw from a planned summit with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, even as the Mexican leader's popularity has sunk to a four-year low, a poll showed on Tuesday. The survey, by polling firm Buendia & Laredo, showed that 64...

Bayern Munich’s Douglas Costa scored a first-half winner as the holders did the very bare minimum to beat VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 Tuesday and move into the German Cup quarterfinals. The Brazilian’s 18th-minute shot, which was deflected past ’keeper Koen Casteels by Wolfsburg’s Luiz Gustavo, was...

The U.S. Army will grant the final permit for the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline after an order from President Donald Trump to expedite the project despite opposition from Native American tribes and climate activists. In a court filing on Tuesday, the Army said that it would allow...

The head of the U.S. Air Force urged caution Tuesday in increasing the pace of the air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. President Donald Trump made accelerating the fight against ISIS a central plank of his campaign and has pledged to intensify bombing of the militant group. General...

The Scottish parliament, in a symbolic motion, voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to reject Britain's march towards the EU exit, with the semi-autonomous government warning Scotland would not be "humiliated." The Scottish government said the vote – backed by nearly three quarters of Scottish...

(Sky News)- A director of the holiday company TUI has admitted they still do not warn tourists if destinations are considered to be at a high risk of terrorist attack. Commercial director Andrew Flintham was questioned at the inquests into the deaths of 30 Britons, who were among 38 people...

A Syrian-born artist's towering anti-war installation was opened Tuesday in Germany -- three passenger buses placed vertically like an Aleppo sniper barricade -- but the event was marred by heckling far-right protesters. About 100 members of the Islamophobic and anti-immigration PEGIDA...

 A Saudi billionaire's pan-Arab TV news channel was declared "dead" on Tuesday, ending a two-year search for a new home after it was shut down by the Bahraini authorities. Bahrain pulled the plug on the Alarab News Channel in February 2015 after it aired an interview with a Shiite...

The Russian military is denying that its warplanes have attacked the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Tuesday that Russian warplanes haven't conducted a single strike on Idlib this year. Syrian opposition activists...

The Israeli High Court on Tuesday ordered the removal of parts of a Jewish settlement outpost that were built on private Palestinian land, hours after parliament passed a law legalizing similar cases. The court ruled that 17 caravans in the Tapuah West outpost in the northern West Bank were...

Angry French youths clashed with police and burned cars in a Paris suburb for a third night in a row on Monday, police sources said, amid simmering anger over the alleged rape of a local man during his arrest last week. A 22-year-old black youth worker named as Theo required major surgery...

(Foreign Policy)- During his first trip to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump gave his generals a month to develop a new plan to defeat the Islamic State. One of the most pressing questions is when and how to take Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital in Syria. Left unresolved in the...

An explosion occurred near the Supreme Court in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, according to police and witnesses. An apparent suicide bomber targeted Supreme Court employees leaving their offices at the end of the working day, but the number of casualties was not...