The Trump administration, facing criticism over deportations from lawmakers and civil rights groups, said Monday it would reopen consideration of some deferral requests for compelling circumstances such as medical conditions. In August, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services...

Dozens of Palestinian women protested for women's rights Monday outside the office of prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, following the death of a 21-year-old woman in suspicious circumstances. Social media posts have alleged that Israa Ghrayeb, 21, died following beatings by her family...

Iran will "take a strong step" away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if Europe cannot offer the country new terms by a deadline at the end of this week, a government spokesman said Monday. The comments from spokesman Ali Rabiei, which came as top Iranian diplomats traveled to...

The New York-based Human Rights Watch has reported today that at least three Syrians deported by the Lebanese authorities have already been arrested by the Syrian regime upon their return to their home country. Between 21 May and 28 August, said the rights watchdog, 2,731 Syrians were deported...

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Monday he wanted an election and that his party would stop a no-deal Brexit. "We must come together to stop no deal - this week could be our last chance," Corbyn said in a speech in Salford, northern England. "Then we need a...

Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk is on the shortlist to add FIFA's best player award to his UEFA Men's Player of the Year honour. The Dutch international denied Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the European title last week and the same trio are in the running for the FIFA...

Greece began moving hundreds of asylum-seekers on Monday from a camp on the island of Lesbos that holds around four times the number of people it was built for. Over 11,000 refugees and migrants, most of whom have fled war or poverty in the Middle East, Asia or Africa, are holed up at Moria in...

Lawyers for a Syrian accused of war crimes in the Netherlands for allegedly participating in an execution during the country’s civil war denied on Monday that their client was a member of the radical Nusra Front. Ahmad al Khedr, also known as Abu Khuder, faces charges of murder and...

 Saudi Arabia is struggling to hold together a military coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen after local allies turned on each other in a power struggle that has strained Riyadh’s alliance with its main regional partner, the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, the second power...

World record holder Wayde van Niekerk said he would not defend his 400-metres title at this month’s World Championships in Doha as he has yet to recover from a knee injury. The Olympic champion suffered the injury while playing a charity touch rugby game in October 2017 and has not raced...

A Tunisian national guard chief and three militants were killed in an exchange of fire near the Algerian border on Monday, according to a local security source.  The shootout took place in a remote area near the town of Hidra in the Kasserine province, the source said on condition of...

The life of two sick Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons is in danger, the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) warned Monday. Sami Abu Diak, 35, from Silat al-Dahr village in the northern West Bank, is suffering from bowel cancer and is in wheelchair. Bassam al-Sayah is...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad have executed an old woman refused to leave her house in the newly-captured town of Khan Sheikhoun. Maryam al-Shalat was summarily executed on Sunday by regime militias, according to activists who circulated her photo...

Israel has lifted a restriction on fuel delivered to Gaza for electricity, a defense official said Monday, a week after cutting the flow by half over a series of violent incidents. Israeli defense ministry unit COGAT announced on August 26 it was halving the amount of fuel allowed into Gaza...

An escalation between Israel and Hezbollah has ended after a brief exchange of fire, but tensions remained high along the Lebanese border Monday after a series of accusations from the two enemies. Burnt fields could be seen in the border area and a new military checkpoint was set up outside...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A fire broke out in the Hol camp northeastern Syria on Saturday, leaving nine dicplaced wounded, mostly women and children, local acivists said. Malaz al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl that three women and four children were wounded due to the fire that...

Thousands of Hong Kong university and school students swapped classes for democracy demonstrations on Monday, the latest act of defiance in an anti-government movement that has plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its biggest political crisis in decades. The boycott follows a weekend marred...

While U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil industry have slashed the OPEC member’s crude exports by more than 80%, oil product sales from the Islamic Republic remain strong at nearly $500 million a month, shipping data and Reuters calculations show. Sanctions have barely affected Iran’s exports of...

Israeli forces have arrested 22 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military.  A Monday statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in hostile popular activities", without elaborating...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has threatened to purge any lawmaker in his party who votes against the government on Brexit in a dramatic escalation of tensions ahead of a crucial week at Westminster. A senior source in the whips office, responsible for party enforcement, said any...