The US and the Taliban met in Doha on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said, resuming potentially decisive talks to allow Washington to withdraw militarily from Afghanistan. The second day of their ninth round of dialogue had been due to begin Friday but "both sides decided to postpone it...

Jurgen Klopp saluted Mohamed Salah's "amazing" solo strike as the Liverpool star killed off Arsenal with his latest masterpiece in Saturday's 3-1 win at Anfield. With Liverpool two goals up after Joel Matip's header and Salah's penalty, the Egypt forward took possession just inside the...

Roger Federer feels as strong as he has "in years" entering the US Open, having put behind him an epic loss to Novak Djokovic in last month's Wimbledon final. "This is probably the best I've felt in years coming into the US Open again, which is encouraging," Federer said. "I'm ready for...

A missile hit the car park of Libya’s only functioning airport in Tripoli on Saturday, forcing flights to be grounded for almost three hours before operations resumed, the airport and a witness said. The airport said on its website that Mitiga airport “was exposed to a missile, coinciding...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he would tell President Donald Trump at this weekend’s G7 summit to pull back from a trade war that is already destabilizing economic growth around the world. Johnson and Trump are due to meet on Sunday morning for what are expected to...

A US-Turkey operations centre aimed at creating a safe zone in northern Syria is operating at "full capacity", Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday. Under an agreement reached between Ankara and Washington earlier this month after difficult negotiations, the joint operations...

Manchester United missed another penalty then conceded an injury-time goal to lose 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday. Five days after Paul Pogba had a penalty saved in a 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Marcus Rashford regained spot-kick duties but struck...

Algeria's Culture Minister Meriem Merdaci resigned Saturday, following the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a packed concert by rapper Soolking in the capital, the president's office announced. It said Merdaci handed her resignation to interim president Abdelkader Bensalah...

A third British warship is heading to the Gulf, the Royal Navy announced Saturday, amid heightened tensions in the region. Britain has already sent the HMS Kent to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and is now redirecting the Type 45 destroyer...

France delayed the planned signing of a pledge by Internet platforms to fight hate speech online amid pressure from the United States, a French minister said, adding that he was still hopeful the U.S. will join the initiative. France, which is hosting the G7 summit in Biarritz, was...

Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data showed Saturday, amid growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro to put out the worst blazes in years. The fires in the world's largest rainforest have triggered a global outcry and...

Yemeni military officials say forces loyal to the country's internationally recognized government have wrested control of a military camp from a separatist militia backed by the United Arab Emirates just outside a key southern city. They say government forces seized control on Saturday of...

 A joint Turkish-U.S. operation center to establish and manage a safe zone in northeast Syria is fully operational, Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday according to Anadolu news agency. The first joint helicopter flight was due to take place on Saturday, Akar added,...

A car bomb exploded in the rebel-held Syrian city of Idlib Saturday, an activist group and opposition news channel said, as airstrikes hit its outskirts in a government offensive on the last major opposition bastion. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a car blew up...

Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel said Neymar is "ready" for Sunday's Ligue 1 game but whether he plays depends on developments in the Brazilian's bid to leave the club. The 27-year-old is angling for a return to Spain but reports this week suggest PSG have rejected an offer from Real...

(SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reveals in a report released Friday that nearly 2,000 Syrians are still forcibly disappeared by the Hay’at Tahrir al Sham extremist organization, further noting that the organization is responsible for the killing of activist Samer al Salloum...

The summit of G7 nations opening on Saturday will be “a difficult test of unity and solidarity” after a year during which leaders of the rich nations have found it hard to find common language, the European Council’s president said. Donald Tusk also told a news briefing in Biarritz, France,...

Turkish government rejects the allegation that Syrian refugees face deportation in Turkey, wrote Turkey's presidential communications director in a recent article published by the Foreign Policy magazine.   “The idea that Turkey, which has granted citizenship to some 102,000...

Sudan's deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir appeared in court Saturday for the second hearing of his corruption trial, during which his defense asked for his release on bail. Bashir, wearing a traditional white gown, sat in the same metal cage he appeared in Monday when his trial on graft...

Iraqi security officials say a motorcycle rigged with explosives went off near a Shiite mosque south of the capital Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 34. The officials said Saturday that the blast occurred the previous evening on a commercial street in the village of Mussayyib....