Recently, Israel has been expanding its military attacks across much of the Middle East, hitting multiple countries. The aggressive campaign far outpaces anything any adversaries of Israel have been doing to it, or even trying unsuccessfully to do to it. Over the past two years, Israel has...

South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks, as international anger over the violence overshadowed a pan-African economic conference in Cape Town. President Cyril Ramaphosa said at least ten people had been killed during...

Seven of the 23 crew members of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized by Iran in July reached Dubai on Thursday after Tehran agreed to their release, a Russian official said. The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on July 19 in the...

 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi highlighted in a phone call the importance of achieving oil market stability through join cooperation, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. “During the call they discussed areas of mutual...

The blockaded Gaza Strip has marked the highest tragic humanitarian figures in the world, a humanitarian aid NGO said Thursday.  The Istanbul-based Gaza Aid Association held a conference dedicated to the Gaza Strip, and released its annual report on the humanitarian situation in the...

France's foreign ministry on Thursday called on Iran to refrain from any concrete action that does not comply with its 2015 nuclear deal obligations after Tehran said it would develop centrifuges for faster uranium enrichment. "Iran must refrain from any concrete action that is not in line...

Thousands of Yemenis marched in Aden on Thursday in support of the United Arab Emirates, which assists separatists who seized the southern city from the Saudi-backed government in a power struggle that has opened a new front in Yemen’s war. The rally took place as Saudi Arabia, leader of an...

Sudan's Sovereign Council on Thursday approved Cabinet outline of the transitional government, the first since former president Omar al-Bashir was deposed in April, an official said. A member of the council told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity that "the council adopted the outline...

There were many times throughout his life when 17-year-old Nour could have become just another grim statistic. The numbers were always against him. He was a young boy when the Syrian war began, and when his hometown of Moadamyeh was bombed and besieged by government forces. He could...

Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump's special envoy for the Middle East, plans to resign once the long-delayed U.S. peace plan for Israel and Palestine that he has been working on is released, officials said on Thursday. Greenblatt, who had intended to stay only two years when he began...

Refugee crisis and U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies are the biggest fears of Germans, according to a recent survey published on Thursday. 56% of those surveyed by the insurance company R+V Versicherung said they were mostly worried that the refugee crisis will overwhelm the state....

Iran will announce details Saturday of its latest scaling back of its commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal in response to sweeping US sanctions, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported. Atomic energy organization spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi will hold a news conference to set out...

Turkish National Defense Ministry on Thursday announced that two Turkish and two U.S. helicopters conducted a joint flight over the eastern Euphrates in Syria. In a statement on social media, the ministry said the joint helicopter flight was part of the first phase implementations for the...

 The U.S. Treasury is nothing more than a “jail warden”, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Thursday, a day after Washington imposed fresh sanctions designed to choke off the smuggling of Iranian oil. The United States on Wednesday blacklisted an “oil for terror”...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United States did so first. Speaking at an economic forum in Russia’s Far East,...

Israeli forces have detained seven Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. A Thursday statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in hostile popular activities", without elaborating...

There are man-induced and natural fires in the Amazon rainforest but ongoing fires cannot be explained as natural, according to one of the senior officials of a non-profit environmental group. "Some 7,500 square kilometers (1.9 million acres) of forest were felled in 2018, and with the...

The EU called on the Syrian regime and its allies to stop attacks in northwestern Syria, an official said on Thursday. "As the UN points out and as we have reiterated in previous statements, there is a shocking escalation in the worsening conflict in north-west Syria. "There is also a...

Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. Ankara, which hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, controls...

Six months after he was snatched from a road in central Syria, Iyad Suleiman was allowed by his kidnappers to make a Skype video call home. His children were startled at how he looked — skinny and exhausted, with a long beard. He told his wife to keep talking with his captors and Syrian...