GOUDOUBO, Burkina Faso (AP) — Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has visited war-weakened Burkina Faso to show solidarity with people who continue to welcome the displaced, despite grappling with their own insecurity, and said the world isn’t doing enough to help. While Burkina Faso has...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters took control of a key district in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province Monday and encircled the provincial capital, police said, as the insurgent group added to its string of recent victories on the battlefield. Fighting around Imam Sahib district...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's president-elect said Monday he would not meet with President Joe Biden or negotiate over Tehran's ballistic missile program and its support of regional militias, sticking to a hard-line position following his landslide victory in last week's election....

Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous stressed the need to benefit from the rubbish sector and launch projects to treat it in partnership with the private sector and turn it into a source of income.   Local media reported that the director of waste treatments in Damascus suburbs, Maurice...

Israel's growing violence, dehumanization, and aggression towards Palestinians have deflated prospects for peace in the region, but even so, there may still be cause for hope, according to renowned neuroscientist and biologist Robert Sapolsky, who has spent years studying the thorny topics of...

Anas al-Shaarani, 15, was forced to flee Yemen amid a raging armed conflict between Iran-aligned Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces. “The ongoing war in Yemen forced me to leave the country in 2019 as it was no longer suitable for living,” al-Shaarani told Anadolu Agency...

A rocket attack on Sunday targeted the Ain Al-Asad Air Base which houses US forces in Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to the Iraq Defense Ministry. A ministry statement said an investigation has been launched to uncover those behind the Katyusha rocket attack from the direction...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's version of a trial of the century gets under way Monday when a relative of King Abdullah II and a former chief of the royal court are to be ushered into the defendants' cage at the state security court to face charges of sedition and incitement. They are...

Second-seeded Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to win a WTA singles title with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Daria Kasatkina in the Viking Classic final on Sunday. It was also the Tunisian player's first victory against Kasatkina. The fourth-seeded Russian, who was going for her third...

Alaa al-Siddiq, a prominent dissident Emirati rights activist and critic, has died in a car crash in London. Alaa was the executive director of the United Kingdom-based ALQST, a non-profit organisation that advocates for greater freedoms and human rights in the UAE and the wider Gulf region....

CAIRO (AP) — When Libyan security forces rescued her earlier this year, the young Somali woman thought it would be the end of her suffering. For more than two years, she had been imprisoned and sexually abused by human traffickers notorious for extorting, torturing and assaulting migrants like...

(AP) — A driver slammed into spectators Saturday at the start of a Pride parade in South Florida, injuring at least two people. Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis confirmed the crash occurred Saturday evening at the Stonewall Pride Parade in the nearby city of Wilton Manors, WSVN-TV...

  The pro-Syrian regime Al-Watan newspaper said Saturday the Finance Ministry will increase the minimum import prices ​​for 15 commodities.   A number of members of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce said the decision has not yet reached them, but they made it clear that any addition...

MUNICH (AP) — Germany finally clicked into gear at the European Championship, with a little help from defending champion Portugal. The Portuguese became the first team to score two own-goals in one game at the continental tournament, giving the Germans a 4-2 victory on Saturday and ending...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II was smiling broadly as she attended the final day of the Ascot races on Saturday, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act faster against climate change. The 95-year-old queen, a keen racing fan and racehorse owner, has...

Ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who was declared Iran's next president Saturday, should be investigated for alleged crimes against humanity and a "spiralling crackdown" on human rights, Amnesty International said. "That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being...

Tokyo will cancel all public Olympics viewing events in an effort to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, the city governor said Saturday. Having postponed the Games for a year because of the pandemic, Japan has already banned overseas spectators -- in an Olympics first -- while...

The prices of animal feed have risen in the opposition-held areas in northern Syria, taking advantage of the decline in local production as a result of drought and Turkey's prohibition of exporting feed to the foreign market.   In the markets on northern countryside of Aleppo, the...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Saturday it had intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone fired by Houthi rebels towards Saudi Arabia. A coalition statement said Saudi air defenses destroyed an unmanned explosive-laden drone fired by Houthis towards the southwestern city...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s...