BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda offshoot Nusra said on Friday it killed a captive Lebanese soldier in retaliation for the arrest by Lebanese authorities of women identified as wives of Islamist militants. The soldier was one of more than...
Tunisia's Free Patriotic Union party – which has the third largest bloc in parliament – has said it would throw its weight behind presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party in a runoff vote slated for late December. "We call on supporters to vote for...
More than 7,000 suspected foreign fighters travelling to Iraq and Syria have been banned from entering Turkey, the country's Foreign Minister has announced. Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came on Friday as counter-terrorism methods took center stage on the final day...
Belgium’s main political parties are reportedly working on a resolution to recognize Palestine as a state, a Belgian daily reported Wednesday. Le Soir reported that Belgium’s coalition government reached an agreement earlier this week. The Belgian parliament will reportedly debate a...
Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries are to maintain their market share and resist falling oil prices, say experts. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, convened on Nov. 27 in Vienna to devise a strategy against falling oil prices,...
At least 19 people, including 10 police officers and nine militants, were killed and 28 others injured in clashes in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s autonomous Republic of Chechnya Thursday, an official statement said on Thursday. According to a...
Russia aims to sell natural gas to Turkey at a six percent discount rate that could be increased further to 15 percent later, Russian Energy Minister said Thursday. “If the market conditions get more beneficial, we could increase our six percent discount offer to 15 percent...
Tunis (AFP)- Tunisia’s first parliament since the 2011 revolution on Thursday elected veteran politician Mohamed Ennaceur, 80, of anti-Islamist party Nidaa Tounes as house speaker. Ennaceur, the sole candidate, won 174 votes from the 214 MPs in attendance. In a brief...
Police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 37-year-old American teacher in a bathroom of an upscale mall in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Abu Dhabi police released video footage Wednesday of a suspect wearing a traditional black abaya, which covers the entire body, and a...
(Reuters) - Three people were killed on Wednesday when a suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the residence of the Iranian ambassador in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security officials and paramedics said. The blast punched a large hole in the building and sent...
WASHINGTON (AP)– The Pentagon says that Iran has launched airstrikes against Islamic State militants in eastern Iraq. Rear Adm. John Kirby says the U.S. believes this may be the first time Tehran has launched manned aircraft from inside Iran to strike targets in...
BEIRUT, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least six Lebanese soldiers when they attacked an army patrol near the border with Syria on Tuesday, the army and a Lebanese security source said. The source said the gunmen crossed from Syria to the...
(Reuters) - An Egyptian judge sentenced 185 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death on Tuesday over an attack on a police station near Cairo last year in which 12 policemen were killed. The ruling is preliminary and subject to a lengthy appeals process. It also goes to the...
(Reuters)- Tunisia's first full elected parliament held its opening session on Tuesday with a challenge to implement the democracy its people sought when they marched in the 2011 revolt against autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The country that saw the first of the Arab Spring...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The official who led the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapons has been named the new United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Sigrid Kaag's appointment in a statement Monday. Kaag,...
BAGHDAD: At least 16 Iraqi border guards were killed Monday in a dawn assault by ISIS jihadis on their post near the Syrian frontier, provincial and security officials said. "Sixteen border guards, including a captain, were killed and four wounded in an attack targeting their...
(Reuters) - Islamist militants beheaded a Tunisian policeman after he was kidnapped near the Algerian border late on Sunday, officials said on Monday. The government has tightened security as it prepares for a presidential election runoff this month between incumbent Moncef...
(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide in the next few days whether he can heal his fractured coalition government or call an early election, one of his advisers said on Monday. The government is split on a range of issues, including the 2015 budget,...
(Reuters) - A settlement to end a three-decade insurgency by Kurdish militants in Turkey could be reached within months if the government puts in place legal guarantees for Kurdish rights, a jailed militant leader was quoted as saying on Sunday. The siege by Islamic State...
(Reuters) - Pope Francis said Islamic militants were carrying out a "profoundly grave sin against God" in Syria and Iraq , calling on Sunday for inter-religious dialogue and action against poverty to help end the conflicts there. Turkey is sheltering nearly 2 million...
