Yemen's Houthis launched more drone attacks on Saudi Arabia's Abha international airport on Friday, the Iran-backed group’s military spokesperson said. The spokesperson said "the attacks have halted air traffic at the airport". There was no immediate confirmation of the attacks from the...

Airstrikes Friday by Syria's regime and its Russian ally killed 15 civilians, most of them in a camp for the displaced in Idlib province, an activist group said. Four children where among 13 civilians killed in a Russian airstrike on a camp for the displaced near the town of Hass in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two army troops were killed Friday by an armed group in southern Daraa province, local sources said.  The two soldiers, who were operating in the Fourth Armored Division, killed in the village of al-Nahj near the town of Tal Shihab. No rebel group...

A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, waited off the coast of Italy on Friday as a battle between former political allies in Rome stopped it docking at the southern island of Lampedusa. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ordered his officials to prevent the boat...

 An Iranian tanker caught in the standoff between Tehran and the West shifted position on Friday but its anchor was still down off Gibraltar and it was unclear if it was ready to set sail, a Reuters reporter said. Gibraltar authorities could not be reached for comment. The Grace 1...

Palestinians on Friday converged near a security fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel to demonstrate against Tel Aviv's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. Gaza’s National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege (NARBS), which organizes weekly rallies, called on...

Around 124,000 civilians have been displaced from the de-escalation zones in northern Syria during the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha due to attacks by the regime and Russian forces. Anadolu Agency’s cameras have spotted hundreds of vehicles heading from the southern countryside of Idlib...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about his concerns over the situation in disputed Kashmir region, Islamabad's foreign minister said, ahead of a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the issue. "Today (Khan) has talked to President Trump. Views...

A joint Turkish-U.S. operation center to establish and manage a safe zone in northeast Syria will be fully operational next week, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Friday. Ankara and Washington have also agreed in general terms about control and coordination of air space in the...

Two Israelis were injured Friday in what the Israeli army called a "terrorist" car-ramming attack near the Jewish settlement of Elazar south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. "A terrorist ran over two civilians," an English-language army statement said. "The civilians were injured...

The boss of Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways quit on Friday, the highest-profile corporate casualty of unrest roiling the former British colony, after Beijing targeted the airline over staff involvement in mass protests. The corporate upheaval comes ahead of a weekend where further...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are looking to invest in infrastructure projects in Lebanon after ties have recovered, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said in comments from his office on Friday. Hariri, on a visit to Washington, also said there were negotiations “over...

India has stuck to its commitment of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons but future policy will depend on the situation, the defense minister said Friday, which analysts said introduced a level of ambiguity in a core national security doctrine. India declared itself a nuclear weapons power...

Sudan has allowed Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera to reopen its Khartoum office, which they had shut down in May, the channel's director in the Sudanese capital told AFP Friday. "The Sudanese authorities have agreed to let us resume our work in covering Sudan," Al-Musallami Al-Kabbashi said....

After being suddenly deported from Turkey, Nidal Hussein stood dazed just inside war-torn Syria, the latest victim of neighbouring countries growing tired of hosting millions of Syrian refugees. "I left my wife and three children in Istanbul," the 48-year-old said last month, after he was...

At least two people were killed and more than two dozen injured after a blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers, officials said. Provincial police Chief Mohsin Hassan Butt said the explosion – the latest violence in a string of attacks in restive Balochistan...

Amnesty International is urging Sudan's military rulers to hand over longtime autocrat Omar Al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for war crimes and genocide linked to the Darfur conflict. Amnesty's statement Friday – just two days before al-Bashir is to go on trial...

Human Rights Watch is urging authorities in eastern Libya to exert "all possible efforts" to ensure the safe return of a female lawmaker abducted from her home last month by armed men. The lawmaker, Seham Sirqiwa, is a prominent critic of Khalifa Hifter, whose forces are now fighting to...

Princess Christina, youngest sister of Beatrix who ruled the Netherlands till her abdication in 2013, died Friday aged 72 after suffering from bone cancer, the royal family announced. Born nearly blind in 1947, Maria Christina, princess of Orange-Nassau, was the fourth daughter of Queen...

A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called for the immediate release of three Iranian women given long jail terms for protesting laws compelling women to wear veils. The trio were charged after a video posted online showed them handing out flowers on Tehran's metro on March 8,...