Some Israeli settlers agree with their Palestinian neighbors in the occupied West Bank that the Jewish state's plan to annex part of the territory would undermine their years-long reconciliation efforts. Palestinian Khaled Abu Awwad and Israeli rabbi Shaul Judelman live just a few miles...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country’s new prime minister. The relatively low-profile Castex replaces Edouard Philippe, who resigned earlier in the day. Macron is reshuffling the government to...

A cut in the army's food portions and supplies has sparked outrage among Bashar al-Assad's loyalists who considered the procedure as an insult for soldiers who sacrificed their lives to keep Assad on his throne.  The General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces issued a decision...

Western nations are moving to offer millions of Hong Kongers refuge after Beijing passed draconian security laws designed to choke the city's democracy movement -- but many obstacles prevent a mass exodus. The United Kingdom is leading allies in offering nearly half the city's 7.5 million...