The Arab coalition at war in Yemen said Saturday its forces intercepted drones fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom. The statement by the Arab coalition said the drones had been launched by the Houthi rebels from Yemen's capital of Sanaa, but did not say where the drones had been...

The United States on Saturday welcomed a provisional agreement forged by Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups to share power for three years as an “important step forward.” The U.S. State Department said in statement that special envoy for Sudan...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday that it carried out drone attacks on military sites at Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV reported. There was no Saudi confirmation of the attacks. Earlier, the Houthis said they targeted warplane...

Roger Federer kept tennis statisticians on their toes Saturday as he mopped up a few more records by trampling all over Lucas Pouille's dreams in a rip-roaring 7-5 6-2 7-6(4) win to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon. The Swiss became the first player - man or woman - to notch up 350 match...

President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin “fairly soon” as U.S. migrant advocates vowed their communities would be “ready” when immigration officers come. Trump, who has made a hardline immigration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 re-election...

U.S. and Taliban officials decided on Saturday to put their ongoing peace talks on hold for two days to allow for a meeting between rival Afghan groups to be held in Qatar, a Taliban official said. The warring sides started a seventh round of peace talks last week, aiming to hammer out a...

Cristiano Ronaldo was interviewed by Portuguese police in early June as a witness in the investigation into the hacker behind the "Football Leaks" revelations, local media reported on Saturday. Ronaldo was heard as a "witness and victim" in "complete discretion" by the judicial police while...

Islamic State fighters claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly overnight attack in a mosque in central province of Ghazni in Afghanistan. At least two people were killed and 20 others sustained injuries as a bomb planted by the hardline Islamist militants inside the Mohammadiya...

Some members of Britain’s Conservative Party have been issued with more than one ballot paper to vote for the next party leader, who will also become prime minister, the BBC reported on Saturday. Ballot papers have been sent to about 160,000 Conservative Party members in the UK, asking them...

Turkey's president has met with the head of Libya's U.N.-recognized government, following heightened tensions between Turkey and forces loyal to a rival Libyan authority. In a statement by his office Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his support for Prime Minister Fayez...

An Iranian religious scholar warned Britain Saturday about a retaliation by Tehran for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibraltar, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency. "I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over...

Human Rights Watch on Friday condemned Lebanon's order for Syrian refugees to demolish their hard shelters as tantamount to "illegitimate pressure" on them to return to their war-torn country. Lebanon, a country of some four million people, says it hosts at least 1.5 million Syrians on its...

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a busy market in northern Afghanistan was hit by mortar fire, officials said Saturday. Several Taliban shells hit the market Friday morning in the Khwaja Sabz Posh district of Faryab province, according to Hanif Rezaee, an Afghan...

Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen's capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Huthi rebels five years ago would not last long. But fighting quickly spread to most areas of the country, plunging the Arab world's most impoverished nation into...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish war lord, who has been fighting along with the Syrian regime for over seven years, was wounded Saturday by an improvised explosive device in the coastal Latakia province, news feeds reported. Miraj Oral, or Ali Kayali, has escaped the death in the suspected...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 55 troops from coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces killed in June as regime forces wage major offensive to recapture northwestern Syria, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 34 troops from Tartus and 21 more from Latakia, main stronghold...

It’s been nearly four years since harrowing images of a drowned toddler washed up on a Turkish beach became a global symbol of the plight of Syrian refugees. Now Alan Kurdi’s tragic fate has inspired a film – one that has left his family distraught. The two-year-old child and his family...

China has received a briefing from the United States on the latest meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, in a call between two senior diplomats. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in...

Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups agreed provisionally on Friday to share power for three years, bringing thousands onto the streets to hail a first step toward ending decades of dictatorship. The deal, concluded in the small hours and due to...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Southern California Friday, causing some damage to buildings, fires and some injuries, with eight times more force than a foreshock that rattled the same area a day earlier, officials said. The latest quake struck at about 8:20 p.m. local time near...