A senior Vatican official who last week made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia says he told authorities in the kingdom, where non-Muslim worship is banned, that Christians cannot be considered second-class citizens. French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran's trip, the first by such a senior...

The United States is not seeking to reopen or renegotiate the JCPOA Iran nuclear deal but hopes to stay in it to fix its flaws with a supplementary agreement, U.S. non-proliferation envoy Christopher Ford said Wednesday. "We are not aiming to renegotiate the JCPOA or reopen it or change...

Israel's intelligence minister said Wednesday that a proposed new U.S.-European deal over Iran's nuclear program might dissuade U.S. President Donald Trump from abandoning the current agreement between world powers and Tehran. The minister, Israel Katz, did not say, in a radio...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese soldier has beaten a Syrian refugee to death in Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, activists said Wednesday. The soldier, identified as Abudlatif Zaitouni, has hit Mohamed Abdul Jawad Wais, 46, with a baton on his head, continuing a series of crimes...