U.S. President Donald Trump has privately discussed with aides and advisers the idea of the United States purchasing the island of Greenland as a way to expand U.S. territory, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday. The notion of purchasing the icy, autonomous Danish...

Yemen's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it is suspending operations in the provisional capital Aden until calm is restored after separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates seized parts of the city over the weekend. "The Foreign Ministry regrets to announce that the work of its...

Syrian air defenses identified a missile that was fired toward the city of Masyaf near Hama late on Thursday and destroyed it before it hit its target, a Syrian military source said. The missile was fired from the direction of northern Lebanon, the military source added in a statement...

Flash floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least 46 people across Sudan in the past two weeks, a health official said Thursday. Health Ministry Undersecretary Suleiman Abdel Jabbar said the rain and floods have affected 16 of the country’s 18 states. Some 9,260 homes have been...

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) warned Thursday that calls by an Israeli government minister to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque would lead to a “religious war”. In a written statement released after a meeting in Ramallah, the PLO’s Executive...

The U.N. refugee agency says Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago. Agency spokeswoman Caroline Gluck said Friday that the Bangladesh government has...

An Iranian oil tanker is being reflagged and is preparing to sail to the Mediterranean, Iran's state television reported Friday, after Gibraltar decided to free the seized ship. "Based on the owner's request, the oil tanker Grace 1 will depart for the Mediterranean after being reflagged...

Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement faces a major test this weekend as it tries to muster another huge crowd following criticism over a recent violent airport protest and as concerns mount over Beijing's next move. Ten weeks of protests have plunged the international finance hub into crisis...

Manchester City will seek revenge against Tottenham on Saturday for their dramatic Champions League exit last season as Liverpool and Manchester United also look to build on impressive Premier League starts this weekend. City completed the first ever domestic treble of trophies in England...

North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea on Friday and launched a scathing attack on "foolish" calls for dialogue from South Korean President Moon Jae-in. It was the sixth round of launches in recent weeks in protest at ongoing South-Korean-US joint military drills. North...

The saga of Neymar's seemingly inevitable departure from Paris Saint-Germain is proving a long, drawn out affair bringing the curtain down on what will ultimately feel like a fleeting and failed experiment. Having arrived in France in 2017 hoping a world-record transfer to PSG would help...

A rebel group backed by Turkey will send reinforcements to the front lines of the last major rebel enclave in northern Syria to oppose a regime offensive, it said on Thursday. Over the past week, the Syrian army has advanced towards the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib in a pincer...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of gangsters killed seven people, including a child, after looting their livestock in eastern Raqqa province late on Wednesday, activists said. The twenty assailants have stormed a small village located in regime-held areas near the city of Tabqa....

Two Palestinian youths stabbed an Israeli policeman in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday and were shot by officers, killing one of them, police said. Video footage aired on Israeli television and circulating on social media showed two young men approaching a police officer at one of the...

U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar said on Thursday that Israel’s decision to block her visit to the country was an “insult to democratic values” and was unsurprising given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resistance to peace efforts. “The irony of the ‘only democracy’ in the Middle East...

Violating Astana agreements, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime on Thursday, launched intense air and land attacks in northwestern Idlib province. Backed by Russia, the forces bombed four villages in Al-Tamanah and Kafr Roma towns of Idlib's Khan Sheikhoun and Kafranbel districts, according to...

Instagram on Thursday added a way for users to easily report deceptive posts at the photo and video-oriented social network owned by Facebook. A new tool being rolled out out lets Instagram users tap a "report" option on-screen when they see a post they deem dubious, then tap a "false...

Indian troops detained a Kashmiri reporter working for a local newspaper in an overnight raid at his house in the Tral area of Southern Pulwama district, his family said Thursday. Irfan Ahmad Malik, 28, works for Greater Kashmir, the largest circulation daily newspaper in the Kashmir...

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet personally with the protesters in Hong Kong, saying it would lead to an end to tensions that have seized the territory for weeks. "If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there...

A man was stabbed near British government offices in central London on Thursday, police said, adding the incident was not thought to be terrorism-related. Police said they were called to Marsham Street where the Home Office (interior ministry) is located after a report of a man armed with a...