Palestinian finances are on the brink of ruin after the suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. aid, the head of the Palestine Monetary Authority said Tuesday. The mounting financial pressures on the Palestinians' self-ruling entity have sent its debt soaring to $3 billion,...

The United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday. He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Russia and Turkey on Tuesday "to stabilize the situation without delay" in northwest Syria. "I am deeply concerned about the escalation of the fighting in Idlib, and the situation is especially dangerous given the involvement of an...

Alphabet Inc’s Google Calendar app users were unable to access their schedules on Tuesday as the app faced technical issues globally. "We are aware of the issues and working on a fix," Google replied in response to a tweet. Earlier in the day, DownDetector.com, which monitors outages,...

More than 300,000 people have fled inter-ethnic violence in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since early June, complicating the tracing and treatment of patients at risk from Ebola, U.N. aid agencies said on Tuesday. At least 161 people have been killed in a northeastern province...

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez began the formal process Tuesday of blocking President Donald Trump's plan to proceed with more than $8 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without congressional consent. In a Senate speech, Menendez asked the Senate to move to...

Sudan's ruling military council said Tuesday it will draw up a transitional technocrat government. "We will form a transitional government of technocrats as soon as possible until elections are held," Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the deputy chairman of the Transitional Military...

The United Nations extrajudicial executions investigator, Agnes Callamard, will to issue her report on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi Wednesday, a statement said. Callamard, who has led an international inquiry into Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last...

Algeria's army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah Tuesday accused some parties of wanting a constitutional vacuum, to prolong the country's political crisis, private channel Ennahar TV reported. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 after two months of mass...

The Syrian government will distribute free chickens and feed to farmers to support rural areas ravaged by years of conflict, an agriculture ministry official told AFP on Tuesday. A cabinet statement said 1 billion Syrian pounds ($2.3 million) has been allocated to the initiative, which aims...

It was wrong to remove people campaigning for women to be allowed into Iranian soccer stadiums from a Women's World Cup game in France, FIFA said Tuesday. Stadium security officials intervened in Grenoble during Saturday's game between New Zealand and Canada when they spotted T-shirts...

Germany is doing all it can to defuse heightened tensions with Iran in a peaceful way, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday, adding, however, that Iran must stick to the 2015 international nuclear agreement. “We are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the...

The United Nations human rights office called on Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of Egypt’s former President Mohamed Mursi, saying it should encompass all aspects of his treatment during nearly six years in custody. Egypt’s Islamist ex-president was buried in a small...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday signaled the end of a controversial extradition bill that she promoted and then postponed after some of the most violent protests since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. In a closely watched press conference, Lam apologized...

Iran said Tuesday it has dismantled a new espionage network linked to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and arrested a number of spies. "Following clues in the American intelligence services, we recently found the new recruits Americans had hired and dismantled a new network," state news...

Thousands joined in prayer in Istanbul Tuesday for former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi who died a day earlier after collapsing during a Cairo court session. The prayer called by Turkey's religious authority Diyanet took place in the city's Fatih mosque. Turkey was one of Morsi's key...

Yemen's Houthi movement and the United Nations have agreed on a mechanism to inspect ships docking at Hodeida following the group's withdrawal from three Red Sea ports under a U.N.-sponsored deal, a Houthi official and a U.N. source said. The Houthis' unilateral pullout last month from the...

Russia told the United States Tuesday to drop what it called provocative plans to deploy more troops to the Middle East and to cease actions that looked like a conscious attempt to provoke war with Iran. The comments, from Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to Russian news agencies,...

Clashes between pro-regime forces and extremist-led groups that control Syria's northwest killed at least 45 combatants Tuesday, a war monitor said. The fighting flared on the edge of Hama province when Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Nusra Front) launched a dawn attack on regime...

The Africa Cup of Nations is set to kick off in Egypt on Friday against a backdrop of terror attacks and only days after the death of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. With opening and closing games held at Cairo Stadium, it will be the fifth time that Egypt has hosted the regional...