Israeli warplanes on Saturday continued attacking the blockaded Palestinian Gaza strip, targeting five more sites affiliated with Palestinian resistance forces there, Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground reported. The new Israeli raids followed Friday's escalation when an Israeli air...

A Department of Defense plane from Guantanamo Bay skidded off a runway into shallow water in Jacksonville, Florida, late Friday, but officials said there were no serious injuries. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue said 21 passengers were transported to the hospital, all in good condition. There...

Britain’s governing Conservatives need to be open to compromise with the opposition Labour Party in order to deliver Brexit following heavy losses in Thursday’s local elections, senior ministers said on Saturday. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives lost 1,332 seats on English local...

An Iranian newspaper says one of its reporters was detained by police earlier this week while she was covering a protest marking International Workers' Day, in which dozens of labor activists were also arrested. The pro-reform Shargh newspaper said Saturday that Marzieh Amiri was detained...

Eight soldiers were killed Saturday in an attack on a training camp belonging to the eastern Libyan armed forces of Khalifa Haftar in the southern city of Sebha, the head of the local municipality said. Hamed al-Khaiyali told Reuters one soldier had been beheaded, the others "slaughtered"...

One young Palestinian man on Saturday was martyred in Israeli air raids on the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry.   Imad Mohammed Nesir, 22, was killed in an attack on northern Gaza, the ministry said, adding that four others were wounded in attacks carried...

The United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps,” in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing’s mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups. The comments by...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday Iran should boost non-oil exports and continue oil sales to counter U.S. sanctions, saying Washington was targeting Tehran’s hard currency reserves, state television reported “America is trying to decrease our foreign reserves ... So we have...

North Korea fired unidentified short-range missiles in the direction of the East Sea on Saturday, according to South Korea’s state-run Yonhap News Agency.   Yonhap cited South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying the North “fired multiple rounds of unidentified missiles from...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than an hour on Friday, discussing the possibility of a new nuclear accord, North Korean denuclearization, Ukraine and the political situation in Venezuela, the White House said. “Had a long and very good...

South Sudan's once-warring parties have agreed to delay key next steps in a fragile peace deal by six months after the main opposition warned it might walk away. Friday's agreement came after talks in Ethiopia. The chairman of a smaller opposition party that attended, Denay Chagor,...

 A Yemeni official say a bomb has exploded in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, killing three people and wounding four. A local police official said the bomb went off Friday near a hub for motorcycle taxis in al-Qoton district and that two of the wounded are in critical...

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip Friday, the enclave's Health Ministry said, in what the Israeli army called a response to the wounding of two soldiers along the border. "Two citizens were killed and two others seriously wounded by Israeli occupation...

The removal of tough US tariffs on Chinese goods will be part of enforcing any new trade deal between Beijing and Washington, US Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. Pence told CNBC television that President Donald Trump remained "very hopeful" about the current round of trade talks,...

Spain will not allow its embassy in Caracas to be used as a political center for opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez, acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said in Lebanon on Friday. Lopez, an ally of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, took refuge at the Spanish residence with his...

Heavy fighting raged overnight in the battle for the Libyan capital Tripoli, with neither faction able to secure gains on the frontlines as an offensive by eastern commander Khalifa Haftar entered its fifth week. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel...

Thousands of protesters rallied peacefully in Algiers after Friday prayers, chanting "We will not shut up!" and demanding the departure of Algeria's ruling elite a month after the downfall of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Weeks of demonstrations forced Bouteflika out of office April 2...

 A Libyan television channel says two of its reporters were kidnapped by forces loyal to a military commander while covering fighting in the capital, Tripoli. Libya Alahrar TV said in a statement Friday that forces allied with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar allegedly detained the...

French prosecutors and police inspectors have opened an investigation after an officer was seen hurling a paving stone at protesters during May Day demonstrations in Paris, sources said Friday. The incident -- captured in video footage posted on social media this week -- occurred as riot...

The Israeli army on Friday detained 15 people, including both Palestinians and pro-Palestine foreign activists, in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil [Hebron], according to an Anadolu Agency photojournalist. An Israeli military force detained the 15 as they attempted to fix a road that runs...