The United Nations on Friday called for "unhindered humanitarian access" to people fleeing the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria. In the past week alone, the UN says more than 10,000 people have fled from the conflict zone to Al-Hol, where the main camp for people...

Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will decide whether to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for graft before Knesset elections slated for April 9, Mandelblit announced Friday. In a statement, Mandelblit said his team of prosecutors was currently working on the three...

Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at hundreds of protesters in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, witnesses said, in the latest of more than a month of anti-government demonstrations. Demonstrators frustrated with a worsening economic crisis have been on the streets...

For the 45th week in a row, Palestinians on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s...