Children of some 33,000 Palestinians living behind barbed wires in Hebron, the Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of Jerusalem are subjected to daily harassment while passing through Israeli military checkpoints. On eve of World Children Day, speaking...

 Dozens of people from eastern enclave of Damascus were infected earlier with Leishmaniasis due to the spread of the "sandfly" that transmits the disease in Ghouta suburbs, a local news site said Friday. Sowt al-Assima, or The Capital Voice, said that the disease began to spread...

President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia and Turkey of seeking to promote anti-French sentiment in Africa by funding people who whip up resentment against France in the media, in an interview published Friday. "We must not be naive on this subject: many of those who speak, who make videos,...

An explosion at a natural gas pipeline in restive northern Sinai Peninsula caused a fire but little other damage and there were no casualties, a senior Egyptian official said. Gen. Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha, who governs the northern part of the peninsula, said all the pipeline valves were...