PARIS (AP) — French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching in the French capital. Hundreds of people marched peacefully in other cities in France and elsewhere in Europe....

Syrian regime accounts mourned a senior commander in the Air Force without revealing the cause or the place of his death that came  two weeks after returning back from a mission in Tehran. Brigadier General Engineer Rajab Ali Habib, 57, was the director of Factory 419 in the...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief said foreign fighters and mercenaries remain in Libya in violation of last October’s cease-fire agreement and called for their withdrawal and an end to violations of the U.N. arms embargo, saying these are “critical elements” for lasting peace in the...

The UN says 10,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes in the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from Israeli strikes on the enclave reaches 137. Israel continued to bombard the Gaza Strip with air raids and artillery shells on Saturday, killing several children and women at a...