Two months before Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan on Jan. 28, Luxembourg's foreign minister was certain the US president would break with the European Union and recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Jean Asselborn wrote to his EU...

The number of novel coronavirus infections in Russia closed 600,000 on Tuesday while the country registered the highest daily recoveries from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. With 7,425 new cases registered over the last 24 hours, the total number of infections rose to 599,705,...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has upped the ante in the chaotic conflict in Libya, warning Cairo could intervene militarily to halt a march eastwards by the Turkey-backed forces of the UN-recognised government. Sisi's tough words came after the Tripoli-based Government of National...

The US is no longer demanding Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad step down from office, and is instead seeking a radical change in the regime's behavior, President Donald Trump's special envoy for the country's conflict said Monday.  "We are not demanding total victory. We are not...