UN human rights experts and Amnesty warned Tuesday that Lebanese authorities were failing to protect protesters, following attacks on demonstrators by government supporters. The authorities have "failed to adequately protect protesters from violent attacks by others", said a statement...

Officials from China, Russia, France, Germany and Britain will meet with Iran in Vienna on Dec. 6 to discuss how to uphold the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Joint Commission will be chaired by European External Action Service...

Russia urged on Tuesday the YPG/PKK to fulfill its obligations regarding weapons and troops withdrawal from northern Syria. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov advised the SDF -- another name used by the terrorist organization YPG/PKK -- "to...

The Syrian regime on Tuesday continued its boycott of the second round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee meetings. The boycott of the ongoing talks in Geneva which started Monday has now entered it second day. The regime delegation left the talks after its proposal of entering...

Turkey is refusing to back a NATO defense plan for the Baltics and Poland until the alliance offers Ankara more political support for its fight against Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria, four senior alliance sources said. Ankara has told its NATO envoy not to sign off on the plan and is...

Afghanistan's powerful intelligence agency Tuesday denied reports of a massive pedophile ring operating in the country's schools, accusing the activists who broke the story of threatening public order. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said both Musa Mahmudi and Ehsanullah Hamidi...

 Sudan's cabinet Tuesday scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights during the 30-year tenure of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir, state media reported. Thousands of women were flogged, fined and even jailed during Bashir's ironfisted rule under the archaic...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he has no concerns about Mohamed Salah's fitness ahead of their Champions League clash with Napoli. Salah was an unused substitute in the 2-1 win at Crystal Palace on Saturday after missing training with an ankle problem. "Mo Salah looks really good,"...

Lebanon's outgoing prime minister announced Tuesday that he will not head the next government, a move he said aims to expedite the formation a new cabinet in the protest-hit country. Saad Hariri had submitted his administration's resignation on October 29, bowing to popular pressure from a...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Huthi rebels said Tuesday it will release 200 insurgents, as efforts pick up pace to end the conflict in the impoverished country. Patients needing medical care will also be allowed to be flown out of Sanaa airport, which has been closed to...

Palestinians burned effigies of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, as thousands protested against a shift in US policy on Israeli settlements. Breaking with decades of international consensus, Pompeo on November 18 said...

 A car bomb by Kurdish YPG has killed 17 people and wounded 20 others near in Tal Khalaf village near the border town of Ras al-Ayn, the Turkish Defence Ministry said Tuesday. Car bombs have become the new attack tactic by Kurdish militias to target Turkish-backed fighters but this...

The political detainee Osama Omar al-Khalid died on Monday due to his deteriorating health condition, following 15 months of detention by the military Intelligence, local rights advocates said. Doctor al-Khalid was acclaimed for devoting his medical career to help poor people,...

At least 28,076 women have been killed since the Syrian war erupted in March 2011, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Monday marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.   The report documents that 28,076 females were killed at...

Iraqi authorities said Tuesday six Daesh/ISIS terrorists were killed in a police chase in the southern province of Kirkuk. A federal police statement said an explosive belt and device were seized from a Daesh hideout during the chase in the area of Wadi al-Karha, southwest Kirkuk city....

Senior U.S. officials held talks with East Libya-based military commander Khalifa Haftar to discuss steps to halt an offensive on the capital Tripoli, according to a statement by the U.S. State Department. In April, Haftar’s forces launched a military campaign to capture Tripoli from the...

Denmark offered to take over Canada’s leadership of NATO’s non-combat training mission in Iraq from the end of 2020 until mid-2022, the Danish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. “With the contribution we will be able to deliver an even stronger effort in our fight against the...

An Iraqi protester was killed on Tuesday in the capital Baghdad and dozens more wounded across the country's restive south as sit-ins turned violent, medics told AFP. The demonstrator died after being shot by a rubber bullet near Al-Ahrar bridge, which has been sealed off by security forces...

 Britain’s opposition Labour Party has squeezed the governing Conservatives’ opinion poll lead to 11 points from 18 over the last week, a survey by Kantar showed on Tuesday, ahead of a Dec. 12 election. Support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives fell 2 points to 43%,...

A Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli prison, a local NGO said Tuesday, blaming the death on medical negligence. "Sami Abu Diak, 37, died in Assaf Harofeh medical center where he was transferred after his health has deteriorated," the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement....