Schools in Tehran were ordered to be closed on Wednesday after the Iranian capital was cloaked in dangerously high levels of air pollution, authorities said. Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties...

Exchanges of fire triggered by Israel's targeted killing of a top militant in Gaza raged for a second day Wednesday and showed little sign of easing, with 22 Palestinians killed. Fresh rocket barrages were fired at Israel, which responded with strikes on what it said were Islamic Jihad...

(Zamana Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was killed when Hezbollah militia and the regime army launched an offensive to drive rebels from Juroud Arsal, their last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Friday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said.   The Syrian refugee camps in Wadi Hamid that...

An activist was killed Tuesday in the capital Beirut when soldiers attempted to drive down a road closed by protesters. The soldiers fired on the crowd, which were preventing their vehicle from passing, hitting activist Ala Abu Fahr. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died despite...

Violent protests broke out in Chile's capital Santiago on Tuesday as the country's currency dropped to a historic low after weeks of mass street demonstrations that have left the South American country in crisis. Clashes broke out between protesters demanding the resignation of President...

President Donald Trump will leap from the frying pan of impeachment into the fire of foreign policy controversy when he hosts his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Wednesday. On the day that the impeachment process shifts to the dramatic phase of public hearings...

Police fired tear gas at pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong’s Central financial district and at demonstrators on the other side of the harbour on Tuesday as a senior officer said the unrest had brought the city to “the brink of total breakdown”. The clashes took place a day after police...

Turkish forces conducting a joint patrol in northern Syria under a Russian-Turkish deal fired live rounds on Tuesday at protesters near the mainly Kurdish town of Kobani, a witness and a monitor said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said two people were...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States knows the location of the third in command to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed last month in a U.S.-led raid. “We have our eye on his third,” Trump said during the question and answer session following a...

Four civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on residential areas in the de-escalation zone of Idlib, Syria, the Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets said on Tuesday. The agency stated that four people were killed and another 10 injured in the town of Kafar Roma and the...

Five Syrian torture survivors living in Norway have filed legal complaints against senior officials of the Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) announced on Tuesday. “Trials and investigations in Europe can pave the way to end impunity...

Russia accused the U.S. on Tuesday of attempting to separate Syria from its oil-rich regions. Speaking at the second Paris Peace Forum in the French capital, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged that Washington pushed Gulf countries to finance the creation of a quasi-state, based on the...

Dozens of mourners filled a church Tuesday for the funeral of an Armenian Catholic priest and his father killed by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria. Men, women dressed in black and children gathered to celebrate the lives of Joseph Hanna Ibrahim and his father in the...

The Saudi cabinet Tuesday condemned what it called its rival Iran's "deception" over its nuclear program, after Tehran's decision to re-start atomic activities at one of its key sites. A cabinet session chaired by King Salman expressed its "denunciation of Iran's continued deception and...

Kashmir, 100 days were marked Tuesday since India stripped the restive Himalayan valley of its autonomy and imposed a strict communications blackout, with local journalists protesting the internet blackout. Tensions have been high since August 5 when the national government moved to bring...

Banks and schools in Lebanon were closed on Tuesday as protesters tried to prevent employees from clocking in at state institutions nearly one month into an anti-graft street movement. Unprecedented protests erupted across Lebanon on October 17, demanding the ouster of a generation of...

Sirens wailed, residents ran to bomb shelters and both sides feared yet another war as an Israeli targeted strike killing an Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday sparked exchanges of fire. The escalation sent shock waves through the coastal strip and into the heartland of...

A Saudi Arabian court has convicted 38 people of terrorism-related crimes, state-run Al Ekhbariya television reported on Tuesday. The TV channel said they were charged with financing terrorism and with takfir - the Islamist militant practice of labeling followers of other schools of Islam...

At a base in eastern Syria, a senior U.S. coalition commander said Monday that American troops who remain in Syria are redeploying to bases, including in some new locations, and working with the Kurdish-led forces to keep up the pressure on the Islamic State militants and prevent the extremists...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set Tuesday to hear arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump's effort to rescind a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children - dubbed "Dreamers" - part of his tough...