Eleven Yemeni government troops, including a senior officer, were killed in a rebel missile attack and clashes to the northeast and east of Sanaa, military and medical sources said Monday. General Mohammed Ali-Roqn, commander of the army's 122 brigade, along with eight other soldiers were...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose first term in office ended in part for health reasons, sparked fresh speculation Monday about his well-being with an unexpected, hours-long hospital visit. Abe emerged from the Tokyo hospital where he was previously treated for ulcerative colitis...

Barcelona insisted they had not heard from Lionel Messi that he wants to leave the club, as an emergency board meeting was being held at Camp Nou on Monday. Barca officials, including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu, were due to discuss wholesale changes following the team's...

The UAE's decision to normalise ties with Israel could propel Saudi Arabia to deepen its furtive relations with the Jewish state as Riyadh seeks to entice investments to fund an ambitious economic transformation, analysts say. The United Arab Emirates on Thursday became the first Gulf state...

Israeli tanks pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday in what has become a daily response to Palestinian rockets and airborne firebombs launched into southern Israel and to clashes on the border. "Tanks targeted a number of military observation posts belonging to the Hamas...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday postponed the nation's election to focus on fighting a coronavirus second wave, as data showed Japan's economy had endured a historic contraction. With more than 21.5 million cases worldwide, a second wave of infections is also threatening...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said they discussed on Sunday a standoff over disputed territory in the eastern Mediterranean, where Ankara is at loggerheads with Athens and the European Union. After the meeting in Santo Domingo, Pompeo said on...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged fresh Middle East peace talks after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalize ties in a move praised by many Western governments, including Paris, but unanimously denounced by the Palestinians. Taking to Twitter after a phone conversation with Mahmoud...

Belarusians chanting "Step down!" filled the center of the capital Minsk Sunday in the biggest protest so far against longtime president Alexander Lukashenko's re-election a week ago after Russia said it would offer him military help if necessary. There was no visible police presence at the...

Lewis Hamilton said he was in a "beautiful" trance on Sunday as he raced to another record-breaking triumph to open up a 37-point lead in this year's drivers' championship at the Spanish Grand Prix. His Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, one of Formula One's greatest pragmatists, agreed, but he...

The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise ties would kill the two-state solution, strengthen "extremists" and undermine the "possibility of peace", chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday. The fractured Palestinian leadership -- from the Palestinian...

After two years under house arrest, Palestinian resistance icon Raed Salah began a 17-month jail term on incitement charges. The sentence was scheduled to start in March, but was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Salah, the leader of the northern branch of Islamic Movement in...

 The United Arab Emirates has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as "unacceptable", state news agency WAM said Sunday. Rouhani said in a speech on Saturday the UAE had made a...

At least five people were killed Sunday when gunmen stormed an upscale beachfront hotel in Somalia's capital following a car bomb blast outside, in an attack reminiscent of others carried out by Al-Shabaab militants, a government security official told AFP. "There is still sporadic gunfire...

A day after the UN Security Council rejected a US draft resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran, Tehran said Sunday it will export weapons once the ban is lifted. “Iran will export and sell weapons” once the UN-mandated embargo is lifted, Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami told...

A ship that has leaked more than 1,000 tonnes of oil in pristine waters off the coast of Mauritius has split in two. The bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off the southeastern coast of Mauritius on July 25 and began oozing oil more than a week later, threatening a...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said Sunday in a statement carried by state news agency SPA that it had intercepted and downed a ballistic missile launched towards civilian targets in southern Saudi Arabia. Cross-border attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces...

Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling “political class” after the vast explosion in Beirut’s port threw the nation into turmoil. The now-caretaker cabinet resigned amid protests...

 Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Sunday. “In the wake of this agreement (with the UAE) will come additional agreements, both with more Gulf countries and with...

Al-Qaeda militants in war-torn Yemen executed a dentist accused of spying for the government and guiding US drone strikes targeting the Islamist extremists, a local official said Sunday. The jihadis shot Motthar al-Youssoufi, then crucified his corpse and left it outside his health centre,...