At least nine loyalist fighters have been killed in clashes with forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in the south of Tripoli, the U.N.-recognized government said Friday. Haftar's forces launched an offensive in April to try to wrest Tripoli from forces backing the Government of...

Opposition activists said Friday airstrikes have stopped in northwestern Syria after a truce went into effect there, seeking to reduce violence in the wake of a three-month government offensive. Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the conditional cease-fire went...

Sudan's ruling generals announced Friday that nine paramilitaries had been arrested for the killing of four teenage demonstrators earlier this week after four people were killed protesting their deaths. The move against the feared paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces came as talks...

Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen Friday, security officials said, a day after deadly assaults by rebels and a jihadist bomber. The gunmen stormed Al-Mahfad base in Abyan province and remained inside for several hours before military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 troops from coastal Tartus province killed in July as regime forces wage major offensive to recapture northwestern Syria, pro-regime news feeds reported. Most slain troops were killed in Hama province and scattered attack in eastern Deir Ezzor province....

The United States will no longer be prohibited from having ground-launched intermediate-range missiles once it pulls out of an arms control treaty with Russia on Friday, but funds to test and develop the missiles may soon run out, officials say. Washington said last year it would be...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday decried “decades of bad behavior” from China that have hampered free trade, laying out a case at a Southeast Asian forum for Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing. Pompeo’s statements came after President Donald Trump on Thursday...

A dozen of Republican U.S. congressmen urged Germany in a letter to designate Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist group, according to Israeli daily Jerusalem Post.   "We urge your government to take a profound step in the war against terrorism... And eliminate the artificial...

Mohammed Haji Abed drives his yellow taxi through the busy streets of the Syrian capital for about 12 hours a day, toiling in the sweltering summer heat but earning barely enough for his family of five to get by. It was easier for him to make ends meet at the height of his country's civil...

President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday Iran was ready for the worst in an uphill struggle to salvage its nuclear deal with world powers abandoned by the United States, but that he was sure Tehran would eventually prevail. Fears of a Middle East war with global repercussions have risen since...

Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticised male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record. The decisions issued in a series of cabinet...

Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested eight people, with a leading pro-independence figure reportedly among them, after seizing weapons and suspected bomb-making material. Civil servants and medical workers will join the next round of weekend protests. Millions have taken to the...

Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrats won the parliamentary seat of Brecon and Radnorshire from the governing Conservatives on Friday, a blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his first electoral test since taking office. The loss reduces Johnson's working majority in parliament...

The Syrian regime has agreed to a truce in the northwestern region of Idlib on condition a Turkish-Russian buffer zone deal is implemented, according to Syria's state news agency, SANA. On Thursday, SANA cited a Syrian military source who announced the government's "approval for a...

France said on Thursday voiced concern over a U.S. move to impose sanctions on Iran's foreign minister and said that along with Britain and Germany it disagreed with the decision, the French Foreign Ministry said. "We consider that all diplomatic channels should stay open, particularly...

Yemen’s main southern city of Aden was shaken by double attacks Thursday as a missile fired by rebels hit a military parade and suicide bombers blasted a police station. The attacks killed at least 51 people and wounded dozens, officials said. Most of the dead came from the missile strike,...

Syrian regime soldiers have gained some ground in the country's last rebel bastion during a Russian-backed offensive that aid agencies warn is growing bloodier. The wave of violence in northwest Syria since late April has killed more than 400 civilians and forced more than 440,000 to flee...

As Hong Kong’s political crisis simmers amidst heated protests, China’s People’s Liberation Army in Hong Kong released a video showing footage of “anti-riot” exercises and its top brass warned violence is “absolutely impermissible”. The three-minute video posted on the Hong Kong garrison’s...

President Michel Aoun warned Lebanese on Thursday of the risk of harsh financial measures from international institutions unless sacrifices are made to save the country from economic crisis. Aoun’s comments in a speech marking army day appeared to raise the possibility of Lebanon having to...

Royal Dutch Shell is not taking any British-flagged tankers through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran in the vital chokepoint for oil shipments. “There are Shell-managed vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and that will probably continue to be the case. Currently, though,...