Saudi Arabia has begun implementing previously announced changes that allow adult women to travel without permission and to exercise more control over family matters, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. "The passports and civil status departments and their branches in all regions of...

Egyptian security forces killed 11 Islamist militants from a local affiliate of the Islamic State group based in the restive North Sinai region, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The militants, armed with weapons and explosives, were killed in a shootout during a raid on their hideout...

Facebook, under pressure to ramp up privacy rules across its platform, said on Tuesday it was rolling out a tool allowing users to control data that it receives from other apps and websites about their online activity. The new tool is to give clients access to their so-called "off-Facebook...

Pakistan said Tuesday it would take the Kashmir dispute with India to International Court of Justice, after New Delhi revoked special status for its portion of the region earlier this month, to the fury of Islamabad. "We have decided to take Kashmir case to the International Court of...

 Spain said Tuesday it will send a military ship to the Italian island of Lampedusa to fetch migrants on board a charity boat that has been stuck at sea for days as Rome refuses it access. "The Audaz, which will leave this afternoon at 5 p.m. (1500 GMT), will sail for three days to...

Athens has received no request from the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya to dock in Greece, Merchant Marine Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis said Tuesday after a maritime tracker gave the ship's "reported destination" as the Greek port of Kalamata. "There is officially no request concerning the...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged Tuesday that Daesh (ISIS) militants are gaining strength in some areas but said the militant group's capacity to conduct attacks has been diminished. "It's complicated. There are certainly places where ISIS is more powerful today than they...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to visit Paris and meet with his counterpart and the French president Friday, state news agency IRNA reported. "We will visit Paris on Friday to meet Emmanuel Macron and France's foreign minister" Jean-Yves Le Drian, IRNA quoted Zarif...

 China said Tuesday it had a right to put out its own views after Twitter and Facebook said they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong. Twitter Inc. said Monday it suspended 936 accounts and the...

Southern separatists seized two Yemeni government military bases near the southern port of Aden early Tuesday, triggering fresh clashes between nominal allies that have complicated U.N. peace efforts, residents and officials said. The separatists and the government are both part of the Arab...

The European Union needs to show flexibility over the Irish border “backstop” because the issue of whether Britain leaves the bloc with or without a deal is now mainly up to Brussels, Conservative party chairman James Cleverly said on Tuesday. “The decision as to whether we leave with or...

Manchester United drew 1-1 with Wolverhampton Wanderers late Monday in the English Premier League's last game of the second week at Wolves' Molineux Stadium. ManU's French forward Anthony Martial scored the opening goal in the 27th minute, making it 0-1. But Wolves' Portuguese...

 Russia accused the United States Tuesday of stoking military tensions by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, but said it would not be drawn into an arms race, TASS news agency reported. The Pentagon said on Monday it had tested a conventionally-configured cruise missile that hit...

The number of people wounded in multiple bomb blasts in the Afghan city of Jalalabad has risen to 123, officials said Tuesday, a day after 14 bombs exploded in public squares, markets and outside restaurants in the eastern city. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks...

Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington's three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been "treated unjustly". The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the sale...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore peace and that dialogue with peaceful protesters would provide a "way out" for the Chinese-ruled city. Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied...

India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. After four weeks of interstellar travel, the spacecraft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) as planned, the Indian Space Research...

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in the Manhattan federal jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a yearslong battle over the financier's fortune. Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list no details of...

American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory. President Donald Trump is considering retaliating against the tax -- approved July 11 -- with punitive tariffs on French wine imports, prompting an...

(EQTSAD)- The hollowing-out of the Syrian currency’s value has been continued as trading against the US dollar reached the highest rate in three years in blackmarket, according to exchange dealers. Trading at 47 Syrian liras to the US dollar in 2011, it's currently going for 622 Syrian...