Five people, including three tourists, were wounded in a knife attack in Jordan on Wednesday, a security spokesman said, adding that the assailant had been apprehended. "Around noon, a man attacked tourists, a tour guide and a security officer who tried to stop him in Jerash", a popular...

Two Libyan policemen were killed in an air strike on a police station in the suburbs of Tripoli late Tuesday, the UN-recognised Government of National Accord said. Its interior ministry blamed the strike on the forces of east Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive...

The shoes are coming off again in Iraq. In years past, Iraqis have beaten their shoes against portraits of Saddam Hussein in a sign of anger and insult. In 2008, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at a ducking President George W. Bush during a news conference to vent his outrage at the...

Donald Trump has reportedly approved an expanded US military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria. The US president’s actions raise a number of legal questions about whether American troops can launch attacks against Syrian, Russian or other forces if they...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of southern Sweida province have voiced concerns of mounting cases of kidnappings by gangeserts, local news site reported. Sweida 24 said 18 people were kidnapped in October by gangs for ransom from the Druze stronghold in southern Syria, such a high rate of...

Reuters photographers covering protests in the central Santiago rallying point of Plaza Italia were getting ready to capture images on Monday as the police set about clearing the square for the evening. Jorge Silva, Reuters chief photographer in South East Asia, has been in Chile covering...

The head of the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees has stepped aside until the end of an investigation into misconduct allegations, the agency said on Wednesday. Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), is under a U.N....

Iran has started to inject uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordow nuclear facility, state TV reported on Wednesday, further distancing itself from a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that curbed its atomic work. The deal bans nuclear material from Fordow and,...

As anti-government protests sweep his country, Iraq's embattled premier has found his decision-making powers clipped by rivals and his entourage subject to increasing pressure from Iran, Iraqi officials told AFP. Adel Abdel Mahdi, 77, came to power last year as the product of a tenuous...

The U.S. has started construction of two new military bases in oil-rich areas in northern Syria, mostly in Deir Ezzor province. The military bases are being built in the 113th Brigade area and near al-Sur region, according to local sources. While the footage captured by Anadolu...

China and France signed contracts totaling $15 billion during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron, a Chinese government official said at a news briefing on Wednesday. Deals were struck in the fields of aeronautics, energy and agriculture, including approval for 20 French companies to...

Gunmen killed nine women and children in the bloodiest attack on Americans in Mexico for years, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to offer to help the neighboring country wipe out drug cartels believed to be behind the ambush. The nine people killed in Monday’s daytime attack at the...

Beijing supports more bold measures to tackle the roots of unrest that has rocked Hong Kong for months, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, just hours after a knife-wielding man attacked a pro-Beijing lawmaker in the financial hub. Han Zheng, China’s vice premier, said at an...

The U.S embassy in Baghdad condemned on Wednesday the killing and kidnapping of unarmed demonstrators by security forces, and urged Iraq’s leaders to engage urgently with the thousands who have been protesting against the government. “We deplore the killing and kidnapping (of) unarmed...

Saleha Nour sits selling nuts in the market in El Fasher, Darfur and dismisses her new prime minister's promise of a brighter new future with a wave of her hand. She is talking on the eve of a visit by the premier - Abdalla Hamdok - who is coming to set out his plans to settle the near...

Jorginho scored two penalties as Chelsea came roaring back from 4-1 down to draw 4-4 with nine-man Ajax in a Champions League classic on Tuesday, while holders Liverpool claimed a narrow victory and a stuttering Barcelona were held to a goalless draw. There was also a rousing comeback win...

Nigerian police have freed 259 people from an Islamic rehabilitation center in the southwestern city of Ibadan, police said Tuesday, taking the number rescued from abusive institutions since September to nearly 1,500. Images from local TV station TVC taken after the captives were released...

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China is harming both economies, the U.N. said Tuesday, with a sharp drop in exports and higher prices for consumers. In a fresh report, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) examined the repercussions of bruising tariff...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia had not withdrawn from a planned "safe zone" in northeast Syria despite Turkey's agreements with the United States and Russia. Turkey struck two separate deals with the United States and Russia for the...

Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 13 protesters in the past 24 hours, dispensing with weeks of relative restraint in favour of trying to stamp out demonstrations against political parties that control the government. After eight people were killed during the day Monday, security...