The German parliament's lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Some 509 German lawmakers, mostly from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative-left coalition government, voted in...

At least 30 Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday by Israeli army gunfire near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In a statement, the ministry said the protesters -- whose names were not given -- had been injured by live ammunition. According to...

An explosion outside an office belonging to an al-Qaida-linked group in the country's northwestern on Friday killed at least 11 people and wounded several others, opposition activists said. The blast comes a week after members of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday called on Russia to destroy a controversial missile system Washington says breaches a key arms control treaty. "We believe Russia can save this treaty," Maas said after talks with Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov, referring to the...