Iran confirmed on Tuesday it had detained French-Iranian scholar Fariba Adelkhah but declined to give any more details, a day after Paris demanded information on her case. French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was worried by the arrest of the 60-year-old anthropologist, an...

Three medics were killed on Tuesday in an airstrike carried out by Eastern Libyan forces led by military  commander Khalifa Haftar, according to forces aligned with the Tripoli-based government.  The attack targeted a field hospital in southern Tripoli, the forces of the...

Sudan's feared paramilitaries have beaten and tortured to death a civilian in a town in war-torn Darfur, a doctors committee linked to the protest movement said Tuesday. The civilian died on Monday in El-Daen, in East Darfur state, after members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashed...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday Iran would continue to reduce its commitments under its nuclear deal, accusing European partners of not fulfilling their obligations. "According to our foreign minister, Europe made 11 commitments, none of which they abided by. We...

Saudi vice minister of defense Khalid bin Salman stressed Saudi support for a political solution in Yemen in a meeting with U.N. special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Monday. The vice minister said in a tweet that he met with the special envoy to “emphasize our commitment to the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Monday that the United States is "playing with fire," echoing remarks by President Donald Trump as the two sides are locked in a standoff over Tehran's nuclear program. The United States quit an international deal aimed at curbing Iran's...

European Union decisions to curb contacts and funding for Turkey over its drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus will not affect its determination to continue energy activities in the region, the Turkish foreign ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said the EU's failure to mention Turkish...

Scores of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets in a Khartoum district on Monday night to protest against the killing of a civilian allegedly by paramilitaries the previous day. Riot police looked on as a crowd waved Sudanese flags and chanted revolutionary slogans in the capital's...

President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against four minority U.S. congresswomen on Monday and dismissed concerns that his comments were racist, prompting outrage from Democrats, who moved to condemn him in the House of Representatives. Speaking at the White House, Trump said...

The outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Goma town has raised fears the deadly disease could spread to Rwanda. Goma shares border with Rwanda, with an estimated 100,000 people crossing the border from either country daily for various businesses, according to...

Expressing solidarity with the Turkish nation on the third anniversary of the failed 2016 July coup attempt, a Kashmiri lawmaker said in a statement that the people of Turkey set a "historic example of steadfastness". "[Turks] sacrificed [their lives] to uphold democracy and humanity,...

President Donald Trump defended Monday his tweets singling out four Democratic U.S. congresswomen of color, falsely claiming "these are people who hate our country." Trump issued the controversial tweets Sunday against "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," whom he did not name, but...

A row over taxing tech giants is set to dominate a meeting of G-7 finance ministers near Paris this week, with the world’s leading industrialized nations already riven by disruptive U.S. trade policies. During the meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Chantilly, ministers are set to discuss making...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend its ceasefire observation mission in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida by six months, until January 15 2020. It also called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to deploy a full contingent of observers "expeditiously" in the...

Egypt's Parliament Monday removed jail penalties from a law controlling operations of non-governmental organizations, but rights groups rejected the changes as insufficient. Justified by officials to protect national security from meddling by foreign-funded charities, the 2017 law...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nidhal al-Fakhouri, a Syrian refugee boxer in Turkey was able to win regional boxing championship on Saturday in the Turkish city of Mersin, defeating his Iranian counterpart Hadi Shujaie. The atmosphere was in the stadium was enthusiastic, filled with Syrian and...

A court in Myanmar began proceedings Monday against a suspect in the rape of a 2-year-old girl at her nursery school, in a case that has generated huge interest and protests, partly because of doubts that the arrested man is guilty. Aung Kyaw Myo appeared at Dakkhina Thiri District...

Yemen's warring sides have met for the first time in five months to discuss redeployment of forces from the flashpoint port city of Hodeida. Wadah Dabish, a spokesman for the forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, says the meeting took place late Sunday abroad a U.N....

Police in northern Italy have detained three men, including one linked to a neo-fascist Italian political party, after uncovering a huge stash of automatic weapons, a missile and material featuring Nazi symbols. Police said the discoveries stemmed from a previous investigation into...

Environmental activists sought to sow chaos in five British cities Monday in a bid to force the government to act to help avert what they cast as a climate cataclysm. The Extinction Rebellion group disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of...