Regime bombardment on northwestern Syria killed at least seven civilians including children on Tuesday, a monitor said, a day after dozens were killed in raids targeting the opposition bastion. The Syrian regime and its Russian ally have stepped up their deadly bombardment of the Idlib...

France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. have strongly condemned the Israel’s latest move to demolish Palestinian homes in the southeast of Jerusalem. A joint statement by the governments of the four countries said they “remain seriously concerned by the continued demolition of Palestinian...

The war in Yemen can be stopped because the warring sides still support a U.N. peace deal brokered in Stockholm last December, U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday. The four-year war between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and a Saudi-backed coalition supporting the Yemeni...

At least 267 members of Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets have been killed in attacks since 2012. According to a White Helmets report, the deaths include 240 people who died in attacks perpetrated by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Russian forces. Since April 26, four civil...

Years have passed since Meysa al-Mihabi was released from the regime prison in Syria, however, the torture she experienced still haunts her every day. "The imprisoned women, including myself, were raped. They [prison guards] would turn a deaf ear although we begged them [not to]. They do...

More than 11,000 foreign women and children related to Isis suspects are being held in “appalling” and “deadly conditions” in a locked desert camp in northeast Syria, a leading human rights organisation has warned. Human Rights Watch found overflowing latrines, sewage seeping into tattered...

U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to decide soon on when to release a plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, his Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt told the United Nations Security Council Tuesday. "President Trump has not yet decided when we will release the political portion...

A Beirut judge issued arrest warrants in absentia Tuesday against 10 Libyan defendants, including the son of the late ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in the case of the disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr and his companions.

Turkey and the U.S. began talks Tuesday to establish a "security zone" in northern Syria aimed at creating a buffer between Kurdish fighters and the Turkish border. "Military officials from the two countries began, today in Ankara, to work together on a security zone that will be put in...

Spain's caretaker prime minister has failed on the first of two opportunities this week to win the endorsement of the national Parliament to form a government. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez fell short of the absolute majority of 176 votes of the 350-member lower house needed to win...

Hundreds of Sudanese university students chanting "civilian rule, civilian rule" rallied in downtown Khartoum on Tuesday seeking justice for fellow pupils killed in months of political unrest. The rally follows a power sharing deal signed last week between protest leaders and army rulers,...

Iraqi security forces are sweeping villages and farmland north of Baghdad as part of an operation aimed at clearing remaining militants belonging to the Islamic State group from around the country's capital. A military helicopter flew over army units in the area as troops on the ground...

Israeli forces rounded up nine Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Tuesday.  A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating...

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that Iran's interception of commercial vessels, including its seizure of a British tanker, in Gulf waters was a violation of international law and urged the global community to deter such actions. "Any disruption of the freedom of international maritime traffic is...

raq Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP. The mass grave was uncovered in Tal al-Sheikhiya, about 300 kilometers south of Baghdad,...

Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party Tuesday. His victory catapults the United Kingdom towards...

(Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria)-   28 Palestinian refugees died as they fought alongside popular committees affiliated with the government forces. Most of the casualties are residents of Yarmouk Camp in Damascus and Handarat and Al-Neirab refugee camps, in Aleppo....

Australia is poised to bar its citizens who have fought for Daesh from returning home for up to two years, under new laws discussed in Parliament Tuesday. The controversial legislation would give hardline Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton the ability to invoke "exclusion orders" to prevent...

A leading rights group is criticizing Egyptian authorities for imposing repressive probation measures on pro-democracy activists recently released from prison. The measures require those released to report every day to the police and spend the night at the nearest police station for months,...

Iran said it will attend a meeting in Vienna Sunday of diplomats from countries still party to the 2015 nuclear deal, as they try to salvage the landmark agreement. The hard-won deal has been threatened with collapse since the United States withdrew from it last year and reimposed biting...