Israel and the UAE agreed Thursday to normalize relations, a historic shift making the Gulf state only the third Arab country to establish full diplomatic ties with the Jewish state. Here is how the world is reacting: - United States - "HUGE breakthrough today! Historic Peace...

Afghan authorities on Friday said they had started to release 400 Taliban prisoners, the final hurdle in long-delayed peace talks between the two warring sides, even as President Ashraf Ghani warned they were a "danger to the world". The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to meet...

Iraq has urged its Arab allies to help persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, where they have been raiding Kurdish militant positions, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Its comments come two days after a Turkish drone strike killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers in...

 A prominent rights group Thursday accused Yemen's Houthi rebels and rival Saudi border guards of killing several dozen Ethiopian migrants in an incident at the border earlier this year. The statement from New York-based Human Rights Watch quoted Ethiopian migrants who said Houthi...