Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said Thursday intelligence agents had detained his chief of staff following a pre-dawn raid, signaling that President Nicolas Maduro may be cracking down on the opposition's challenge to his rule. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a post on...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday hailed his country's close ties with Israel, saying the self-proclaimed Jewish state had “no better friend than the U.S.” At a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, Pompeo also said that Hamas and Hezbollah both continued to pose...

Ten workers were killed Thursday when a tank full of ammonia exploded at a fertilizer factory in Egypt's northeastern Suez province. According to local media reports, the incident occurred in Egypt’s Ain Sukhna region. Five other workers were reportedly injured by the blast, two of...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied a report on Thursday that all of Daesh's (ISIS) final enclave has been captured after a Kurdish media outlet said the militant group had been finally defeated there. "Combing continues in the Baghouz camp and there is no truth (to the...