The Sahel region of Africa is a ticking "time bomb" of terrorism and organized crime, a Moroccan police chief told AFP Friday, a day after a suspected Daesh group-affiliated cell was busted. "It was a dangerous cell primed to go into action at any moment," Abdelhak Khiame, head of the...

An explosion in a battery workshop near the Iranian capital Friday killed one person, injured 10 others and damaged apartment buildings and cars, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported. The blast struck at 5:15 pm on the ground floor of a three-story residential building in Tehran...

 Bahrain is to normalize relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel's public broadcaster Kan said in a tweet Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli reporter, Raphael Ahren of the Times of Israel, said US President Donald Trump would Friday announce that...

Afghan government negotiators left for Doha on Friday to hold landmark peace talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the country's long running conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. Negotiations set to begin on Saturday had originally been slated to start in March but were...