Canada's Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, who came from behind to trounce his Conservative rivals and snatch a majority mandate, now has to deliver on pledges from tackling climate change to legalizing marijuana. Trudeau, who had also promised to withdraw Canada from combat in...

The U.S. has replaced six F-16s positioned at an airbase in southern Turkey with a dozen ground bombers, a Pentagon official told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. "On Oct. 20, airmen and 12 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 75th fighter squadron from Moody AFB, Georgia, arrived at Incirlik Air Base,...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Israelis and Palestinians on Tuesday they were at a "dangerous abyss" and must act quickly to calm nearly three weeks of unrest before it spirals further out of control. The stark comments came as the UN secretary general made an unannounced visit to...

Israeli fire killed a Palestinian during clashes on the Gaza Strip border Tuesday, Gaza medics said, in the latest unrest to erupt in the coastal enclave. Ahmed al-Serhi, 27, was killed along the strip's eastern border with Israel, while five others were wounded. Violent protests in...

U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford played down the chances of any Russian air campaign in Iraq in the near future as he made his first trip to Iraq since becoming the top U.S. military officer this month. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Oct. 1, the same day Dunford...

Like scores of polling stations across the Egyptian capital, a school in the Dokki neighbourhood stood empty Monday, with local residents showing scant interest in the country's no-contest parliamentary election. In the absence of any real opposition, the new parliament is...

The young man scratched his beard and shrugged, dismissing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's call to vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday: "I'm boycotting. They didn't respect my choice the first time so what's the point?" Egypt has had no parliament since June 2012, when a...

A Palestinian gunman went on a shooting rampage at the central bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding 11 other people, police said. In one of the most serious Palestinian attacks against Israelis during this month's...

 Iran Sunday notified the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would apply a protocol granting inspectors greater access to its nuclear sites, a further step in the implementation of a historic deal struck with world powers, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. The announcement came as...

Israel Sunday rejected a proposal to send international observers to a flash-point holy site in a bid to calm unrest after five more stabbing incidents defied a security crackdown. Diplomatic moves to halt the more than two weeks of unrelenting violence gained steam meanwhile, with U.S....

Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country back on a democratic course but which critics say has been undermined by state repression. Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a...

Three Palestinians were shot dead on Saturday in what Israel said were thwarted knife attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of unrest. At least 40 Palestinians and seven Israelis have died in the street violence, which was...

Scores of Russians took to the streets in capital Moscow on Saturday to protest the government's intervention in Syria. Nearly 200 people took part in the protest in the Suvorov Square, chanting slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The group...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Friday condemned the torching by Palestinians of a West Bank site holy to Jews amid warnings it could inflame more than two weeks of deadly violence. Abbas called the arson attack on the flash-point Joseph's Tomb in Nablus irresponsible and said a...

An anonymous source within the U.S. government leaked a trove of documents regarding the nation’s unmanned drone program in foreign nations that was published Thursday by whistle-blowing website The Intercept. Specifically, the documents and slides cover the U.S. military’s drone program in...

An Egyptian court confirmed Thursday the death sentences against 10 people charged with forming an al-Qaeda-linked cell, a judicial source said. The defendants are among a group of 68 people accused of forming an al-Qaeda-linked cell, including the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri....

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the Syrian regime, Daesh and the PKK made an agreement in May to attack the anti-Assad opposition forces and share Turkey's border with Syria. "Daesh, PKK and the [Syrian] regime sat around a table on May 28 in Hasakah [in northeastern Syria]...

Israel set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and deployed soldiers across the country on Wednesday in an effort to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and wounded a 70-year-old woman outside...

A senior council of clerics and officials in Iran has approved implementing the landmark nuclear deal with the West, sealing the final required step in the process despite hard-liners' efforts to derail it. State TV says the Guardian Council, one of the top leadership bodies in Iran's...

On the campaign trail ahead of Egypt's parliamentary elections, the heavily bearded leader of the ultra-conservative Nour Party praises Islam's Prophet Mohammad for cleaning up politics, and promises to do the same. In reality, Younes Makhyoun has more pressing priorities --...