Crowds of Algerians defied a massive police deployment Friday to protest against the government, buoyed by the national football team’s qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals. After celebrating all night their side’s defeat of Ivory Coast on penalties, Algerians flooded the...

Sweden will not sign a U.N. treaty calling for the ban of nuclear weapons, foreign minister Margot Wallstrom said Friday. "The government will, as it stands now, not sign the convention on a prohibition of nuclear arms," Wallstrom told reporters at a press briefing in Stockholm. The...

Palestinian officials say an Egyptian delegation has arrived in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to call for calm between Palestinian factions and Israel. The Egyptian general intelligence officials crossed Friday from Israel through the Erez crossing and headed to meetings with Hamas...

Israeli forces Friday injured a Palestinian child while taking part in an anti-settlement demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a Palestinian official. Abdurahman Shtewi, 12, was injured in the weekly demonstration in the Kafr Qaddum town, protest organizer...

Sudan’s opposition coalition on Friday held the previous regime of Omer Al-Bashir responsible for a military coup attempt on Thursday.  Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Babikir Faisal, a leading member of Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), said the previous regime is attempting to...

Barcelona have signed Antoine Griezmann from Atletico Madrid for 120 million euros ($135 million) after paying his release clause, the La Liga champions said in a statement Friday. France forward Griezmann, 28, rejected a move to Barcelona last year to sign a new contract with Atletico but...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten civilians, including three children, were killed and 45 more wounded in fresh regime air strikes on the northwestern province of Idlib, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The aerial bombing targeted the town of Maa'rret al-Nu'man in the...

 Britain is sending a second warship to the Gulf amid growing tensions with Iran after Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar last week, Sky News reported. Sky said the destroyer HMS Duncan, which had been earmarked for deployment in the region anyway...

Russia began delivery of an advanced missile defense system to Turkey on Friday, a move expected to trigger U.S. sanctions against a NATO ally and drive a wedge into the heart of the Western military alliance. The first parts of the S-400 air defense system were flown to a military air base...

A top Daesh terrorist reportedly responsible for media outreach was killed while working with Khalifa Haftar-affiliated forces in Libya, said a media organ affiliated with the terrorist group. Mohamed Bin Ahmed al-Falata was killed “by forces of the Libyan army,” reported a magazine...

Greece's new government says it is recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country's interim president, saying this would align Greece with the European Union's joint position. The foreign ministry announcement Friday reverses the previous government's position, which...

Gibraltar said its action last week to detain Iranian tanker Grace 1 was a decision it took on its own and not at the behest of any other state or third party, the territory's chief minister said Friday. "All relevant decisions in respect of this matter were taken only as a direct result of...

The United Nations said Friday it was "alarmed" at death sentences given by a court run by Yemen's Huthi rebels to 30 academics, trade unionists and preachers for alleged spying. "The UN Human Rights Office has received credible information suggesting that many of those convicted were...

Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question into next year's census. He directed federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases instead. "It is essential...

Germany must repatriate from Syria the German wife and three children of an ISIL fighter, a court ordered on Thursday in the first such ruling against the government. Like other Western countries, Germany faces a dilemma of how to deal with citizens who went to the Middle East to join armed...

 Iran called on Britain Friday to immediately release an oil tanker that British Royal Marines seized last week on suspicion it was breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria, a foreign ministry spokesperson told state news agency IRNA. "This is a dangerous game and has...

A small group of protesters paraded Friday around Hong Kong government headquarters with a mock coffin of city leader Carrie Lam, as activists announced more protests. The march marked the one-month anniversary of the start of major protests that have rocked the semi-autonomous Chinese...

A political transition agreement between Sudan's military and a pro-democracy coalition is expected to be signed Saturday, a top African Union diplomat said early Friday. Mohammed el-Hassan Labat's announcement came just hours after the Sudanese military claimed it thwarted an attempted...

On one side of the Israeli separation barrier sits the Hajajla family's home. The Palestinians' house is cut off from the rest of their village that lies on the other side, with only a tunnel connecting the two. Endless trouble has followed, they say. Their situation made the news again...

Libya's internationally recognised government on Thursday demanded urgent answers after Paris conceded French missiles were found at a base used by strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose forces are fighting to take over the capital Tripoli. Foreign Minister Mohamad Tahar Siala has asked French...