Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Saturday a US decision to deploy 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East is a "threat to international peace," state media reported. "Increased US presence in our region is very dangerous and a threat to international peace and security...

Lebanon has "summarily deported" at least 16 Syrians, some of them registered refugees, by forcing them to sign "voluntary repatriation forms," human rights groups said on Friday. Lebanon hosts nearly one million Syrian refugees -- a significant burden for a country of four million...

At least eight people were injured in a suspected bomb attack in central Lyon Friday, French officials said. The blast occurred around 5:30 pm local time in a pedestrian street in the city in central France. President Emmanuel Macron, who was beginning a broadcast address as news of the...

Algerian police arrested dozens of people Friday at the Grand Post Office, a key rallying point for protesters in the capital Algiers, witnesses and journalists said. An AFP journalist saw a woman arrested near the post office, where security fences were erected this week in an attempt to...