UN Security Council on Friday urged warring factions in Libya to de-escalate tensions and agree to a ceasefire, and condemned an attack on a migrant detention center near the country's capital.  This is the first statement passed by the Council since fighting erupted in April. It also...

Turkey has sacked the governor of its Central Bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree published in the official gazette said Saturday. Murat Cetinkaya, who was appointed to the role in April 2016, was replaced by Murat Uysal, the decree said, but gave no official reason...

A Syrian regime bombardment has killed 14 civilians, including seven children, in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, in the latest deadly raids on the embattled opposition bastion. Warplanes and helicopters late Friday carried out air strikes on the village of Mahambel in...

A top aide to Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to enrich uranium beyond the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal, just ahead of a deadline it set Sunday for Europe to offer new terms to the accord. A video message from Ali Akbar Velayati included him saying that...

Venezuela’s bitterly divided political factions held competing commemorations of the country’s independence day on Friday, with President Nicolas Maduro calling for dialogue and opposition leader Juan Guaido decrying alleged human rights violations by Maduro’s “dictatorship.” Speaking to a...

The U.N.'s special envoy for Syria Friday urged Russia to help stabilize the violence in northwestern Idlib province and support drafting the nation's new constitution. During talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Geir Pedersen voiced hope that Russia and Turkey could help...

China's Defense Ministry Friday denied U.S. accusations that the Chinese military had recently carried out missile tests in the disputed South China Sea, saying instead that they had held routine drills that involved the firing of live ammunition. The Pentagon said Tuesday the missile...

An Afghan official says mortars fired by Taliban insurgents slammed into a busy market in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province killing at least 14 people and injuring 30 others, including several children. Abdul Karim Yuresh, Faryab provincial police chief spokesman, said the likely...

Some 1,000 people have been killed since Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar launched a push three months ago to capture Tripoli, the UN said Friday, including 53 detained migrants who died in a devastating air strike. Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army, which holds eastern Libya and...

Israeli forces Friday injured four Palestinians who were taking part in an anti-settlement demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to a Palestinian official. Protest organizer Murad Shtewi told Anadolu Agency that Israeli troops used rubber bullets and tear gas to...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, the full face veil, in public institutions for security reasons, an official source said on Friday. The decision follows a suicide bombing in Tunis by a wanted militant. Witnesses said the suicide bomber, who blew...

Hospital and police officials say gunmen have killed five and wounded 10 in an attack on paramilitary fighters near Iraq's capital, Baghdad. The officials say the attack occurred Friday north of the town of Fallujah that was liberated from Daesh three years ago. The officials spoke on...

Greek authorities have seized what they described as the world's largest single haul of super-charged amphetamine Captagon pills from Syria worth more than half a billion euros. Coastguard and drug enforcement officers seized three containers full of the amphetamines, the financial crimes...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar by Royal Marines. “If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities duty to seize a British oil tanker,”...

The United Arab Emirates congratulated Sudan after its military council and opposition reached a power-sharing deal and said it would stand with Khartoum in “good times and bad times”, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said. “We hope that the next phase will witness the...

A top Venezuelan diplomat has blasted the "biased vision" of a report by the U.N. human rights chief chronicling torture, sexual abuse and extrajudicial killings in the country, and demanded it be "corrected." Deputy Foreign Minister William Castillo insisted the report from High...

Troops loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said they shot down a plane belonging to forces loyal to the rival unity government, which acknowledged losing contact with one of its aircraft. Haftar's spokesman Ahmad al-Mesmari said Thursday night an L39 Albatros was shot down...

Thousands of Algerians took to the streets Friday to demand new democratic leadership and celebrate their country's hard-fought independence from colonial France. Amid extra-high security and resurgent anger at authorities, crowds wearing Algerian flags on their shoulders, heads and waists...

Two people were killed Friday after a car blast in the Turkish town of Reyhanli close to the Syrian border, state media reported. Two others were also injured, state news agency Anadolu said, as ambulances and police were rushed to the scene. The governor of Hatay province, where Reyhanli...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime authorities declined the return of 119 displaced to their hometown in central Homs province without declared reasons, according to leaked document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. The ban document that issued in April was signed by the Minister of Local...