Regime bombardment killed 14 civilians including two rescue workers in an ambulance and seven children in embattled northwest Syria on Thursday, a Britain-based war monitor said. The children were killed in various areas of the jihadist-run Idlib province, the Britain-based Syrian...

A Yemeni rebel strike targeted a desalination plant in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan, a Riyadh-led military coalition fighting the rebels said Thursday. The projectile struck near the plant in the Al-Shuqaiq area of Jizan late Wednesday, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki was...

The United Nations’ top human rights official arrived in Venezuela Wednesday for a visit that comes amid heightened international pressure on President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly silencing opponents with jail, torture and excessive violence. On her first visit to the South American...

 Iraqi farmer Riyadh woke on May 13 to find his wheat crop ablaze. In his fields in Diyala province, he found the remains of a mobile phone and plastic bottle which he believes was an explosive device detonated in the night to start the fire. Riyadh and his neighbors in Sheikh Tami...

Lebanese authorities are making their most aggressive campaign yet for Syrian refugees to return home and are taking action to ensure they can't put down roots. Mirroring the rise of anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and around the world, some in Lebanon say that after eight years of war in...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, while disputing the circumstances of the incident. The Guard said it shot down a RQ-4...

The US Senate will vote Thursday on whether to block $8.1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies, a lawmaker said, as legislators' outrage with the kingdom grows. Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Mitch McConnell, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition backed by allied Syrian forces made an airdrop in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, tracking Daesh-linked militants, local media reported Thursday. The overnight airdrop was to hunt Sabahi Ibrahim, dubbed: Abu Hamza, in the town of al-Shaheel,...

Sudanese activists are struggling to document reports of mass rapes during a June 3 paramilitary crackdown on a Khartoum protest camp. But security fears coupled with Internet cuts are making it an uphill task. On the morning of June 3, Nahid Jabrallah was at a sprawling sit-in outside...

U.S. leaders are reluctant to admit that their policy has failed in Venezuela, with excuse-making machinery working overtime, said Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the CATO Institute. In his article for news website Real Clear World "Is It Time...

Regime attacks killed 16 civilians and nine combatants in Syria's jihadist-run northwest on Wednesday, a war monitor said, the latest violence to rattle a region housing three million people. Eleven civilians were killed in regime air strikes on a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya region...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday demanded that deposed Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir stand trial for the mass killings perpetrated in Darfur. "Now is the time for the people of Sudan to choose law over impunity and ensure that the ICC suspects in the...

Rory Stewart was knocked out of the race to become Britain's next prime minister Wednesday, leaving four candidates led by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson. International Development Secretary Stewart received the fewest votes in the third ballot of Conservative MPs and so drops out...

Saudi air defenses on Wednesday shot down a drone launched by Houthi rebels from Yemen, according to a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition.   "The drone was intercepted over [Yemen's] Hajjah province before entering the Saudi airspace," Colonel Turki Al-Malki said in a statement...

Regime attacks killed 16 civilians and nine combatants in Syria's militant-run northwest Wednesday, an activist group said, the latest violence to rattle a region housing three million people. Eleven civilians were killed in regime airstrikes on a village in the Jabal al-Zawiya region of...

Shareholder activists want Google parent Alphabet Inc to break itself up before regulators force the world’s biggest internet ad seller to split into different pieces. SumOfUs, a U.S.-based group that aims to curb the growing power of corporations, is set to make that proposal at Alphabet’s...

A nearly week-long barrage of anonymous shelling attacks on American interests across Iraq are intended to signal Iran's long reach and "embarrass" Baghdad amid spiralling US-Iran tensions, observers say. The incidents were not claimed but largely originated from areas where...

Lebanon's president says his country is eager to take part in Russia-backed political meetings on the Syrian war because it wants to monitor efforts that may accelerate the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees in living in Lebanon. Michel Aoun says, however, that his country's...

Libya's National Oil Company deplored an air raid that Tuesday evening destroyed a warehouse operated by a subsidiary and wounded three personnel near Tripoli. "A warehouse owned by subsidiary Mellitah Oil & Gas Company (MOG) was destroyed by aerial bombardment," the NOC said in a...

Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs rejected Wednesday a U.N. report that said there is credible evidence that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-level officials are liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "Nothing new...," tweeted Adel al-Jubeir....