A volley of gunfire rang out in Kabul on Friday at a ceremony attended by top Afghan government officials. Former President Hamid Karzai, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and a number of other figures fled the site in the capital Kabul, a spokesman of the chief executive told Anadolu...

 At least one militant on a motorbike blew himself up outside the U.S. embassy in Tunisia Friday wounding five police, local media reported, in the country's most serious apparent attack since the summer. Embassy officials confirmed the attack in a tweet on its official Twitter feed,...

A surge in 1948 Palestinian voter turnout was key to depriving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist allies of a parliamentary majority in this week’s Israeli election. Undercutting Netanyahu’s ambitions was celebrated as sweet payback in the nearly 2 million-strong...

Syria’s Idlib region was quiet but tense on Friday with a lull in Russian and Syrian air raids that have pounded the last opposition-held enclave in Syria, residents and opposition sources said, after Turkey and Russia declared a ceasefire. Turkey and Russia agreed to the ceasefire deal...