A booklet promoted by the Palestinian education ministry hailing president Mahmud Abbas has received criticism and mockery online, prompting the government to stress it is not an official text. The booklet, titled "Our role model, Our president," has a picture of Abbas on its cover and was...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russia on Tuesday that Washington would brook no interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and wanted Moscow to take action to show there would be no repeat of its suspected 2016 meddling. President Vladimir Putin, who met Pompeo in the...

Aid agencies in Libya called Tuesday for a U.N. resolution to support people caught in fighting around Tripoli, where the United Nations says 66,000 people have been forced out of their homes and at least 454 killed since early April. Forces loyal to Libya's government are defending the...

Syrian families whose loved ones were taken by Daesh (ISIS) extremists are pressuring governments in the international coalition to help them learn the fate of their relatives. The families Tuesday announced the creation of a Paris-based organization to help document the missing, after a...