Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors. Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the...

At least two Palestinians were killed and 16 Israelis hurt on Thursday in a surge of violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian anger at a U.S. peace plan is high. The proposal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would give Israel most of what it has sought...

Young Iraqi protesters pushed on with anti-government rallies across the country on Thursday as they buried seven fellow activists killed overnight in violence blamed on supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr. Sadr -- a militiaman-turned-politician with a cult-like following -- had...

Aided by sniffer dogs, Turkish rescue workers scanned an avalanche field in eastern Turkey Thursday, searching for a final missing person after two avalanches that killed dozens, Turkish news agencies reported. The private DHA news agency said two more bodies were recovered Thursday,...