The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday blasted Israeli calls to change the status quo of Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Palestinian presidency, in a statement, condemned the call of Gilad Erdan, Israel’s public security minister, to change the historical situation of the...

The United States called Wednesday for journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, to be freed, reiterating the belief that he remains alive and is being held against his will. Seven years to the day after Tice was forcibly detained near Damascus, State Department spokesperson...

Canada's ethics watchdog slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, concluding in the lead-up October elections that he broke rules by arm-twisting his attorney general to settle a criminal case against engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. The scandal, revealed earlier this year,...

Yemen’s southern separatists vowed on Wednesday to keep control over Aden, warning the only way out of the impasse that has fractured a Saudi-led military alliance was for Islamists and northerners to be removed from positions of power in the south. The separatists, supported by coalition...