France sounded a downbeat note Thursday on the prospects of direct talks between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and US counterpart Donald Trump on the nuclear crisis, saying the recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities had created a "new context". French President Emmanuel Macron, who is...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Thursday accused the United States of using oil as a “weapon” and said that balance in the oil market would be restored “soon”. “The United States is now using oil as a weapon; oil is not a weapon,” Zangeneh was quoted as saying by the...

Israeli forces rounded up 23 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday. A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating about...

Interpol said Thursday it has detected more than a dozen suspected foreign terrorist fighters travelling across the Mediterranean during one of its coordinated maritime border operations. Out of 31 active investigative leads, "more than 12 of these linked to the movement of terror...