When Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump shook hands before the world's cameras in Singapore a year ago on Wednesday, they pledged change and progress. But now they are gripped by diplomatic recriminations after a failed second meeting in Hanoi. In Singapore -- the first-ever summit between a...

(Action Group For Palestinians of Syria)- Activists have slammed the Russian and Syrian regime forces for ransacking the old cemetery of Yarmouk Camp, in Damascus, in search of the body remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the Battle of Sultan Yaakoob in Lebanon in 1982....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians, including 5 children and 3 women, were killed and dozen wounded in regime airstrikes on the northwestern idlib province, rescuing groups said Monday.  The deadly airstrikes hit the village of Jabala in the southern countryside of Idlib...

A helicopter was forced into an emergency landing Monday and crashed on top of a building in Manhattan, according to New York officials. "[Fire Department of New York] members are operating on scene at 787 7th Ave in Manhattan, helicopter crash landing," the fire department said on Twitter....

Algerian authorities Monday detained an automobile tycoon linked to ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on charges of corruption, one of his lawyers said. Mahieddine Tahkout "was detained along with his son and two of his brothers on charges of corruption and money laundering", the lawyer...

Huawei's cyber security chief told the UK parliament Monday that the Chinese telecoms giant has been advised it was under no obligation to spy for Beijing if so asked by the Communist state. John Suffolk told a committee hearing that Huawei has sought guidance from its attorneys to see if a...

A Kurdish official in northeast Syria called for help from the US-backed coalition Monday as fires ravaged through vital wheat fields in the latest of such blazes nationwide. Syria's Kurds have led the fight against the Islamic State group in the north and east of the country, backed by a...

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday expressed support for the UN envoy for Yemen, a UN spokesperson said, amid a falling-out between the envoy and the Saudi-backed president of Yemen. Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf met with the UN's political chief Rosemary DiCarlo in Riyadh...

Landline internet connections were down across Khartoum on Monday, creating a digital blackout in the Sudanese capital a week after mobile online services were largely cut following a deadly crackdown on protesters. Internet lines from the country's main provider Sudatel stopped working in...

The UN Security Council on Monday renewed a green light to a European Union mission to combat migrant trafficking and arms smuggling off Libya's coast amid calls for action to cut the flow of weapons. The council voted unanimously to extend authorization of Operation Sophia until June...

Gaza's Health Ministry says that a Palestinian paramedic has succumbed to wounds inflicted by Israeli fire at a border protest a month before. The ministry said Mohammad al-Judeili, 36, died in a West Bank hospital Monday of a wound from a rubber bullet to his head. His death brings the...

Iran has followed through on a threat to accelerate its production of enriched uranium, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Monday, departing from his usual guarded language to say he was worried about increasing tension. Recent weeks have seen U.S.-Iranian confrontation sharply...

Google took in some $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from "crawling and scraping" news websites without paying publishers, according to a media industry-sponsored study released Monday. The study by the News Media Alliance underscores industry arguments about Google and other online giants...

Since the fall of the Islamic State's "caliphate" in March, the international community has been torn over what to do with the families of foreign jihadists captured or killed in Syria and Iraq. Some 12,000 foreigners from as many as 40 countries -- 4,000 women and 8,000 children - are...

Six civilians were killed and dozens injured in airstrikes carried out by regime forces and Russia in northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency on Monday.  The attacks targeted the towns of Ma’ar Shoreen, Khan Shaykhun, Al-Tamanah and...

The Palestinian foreign minister said Monday that comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel were intended to help Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank. "This is really something that the international community has to stand up, has to respond," ambassador Riyad al-Maliki said during...

Up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting intensifies in northwestern Syria as aid funds run dangerously low, the United Nations said on Monday. Syria's Russian-backed military has been pressing an assault on rebels in their last major stronghold with air attacks and ground...

Several shops opened and buses plied the streets Monday as life limped back to the Sudanese capital on the second day of a nationwide civil disobedience campaign called to pressure the ruling military into handing over power. The timid return to normalcy came as the ruling military council...

Syria's Kurds have handed over 14 orphans born to jihadist families to government delegations from France and the Netherlands, in the latest repatriations of foreigners living in crowded camps. Abdelkarim Omar, the top Kurdish foreign affairs official, said Monday that 12 French and two...

All the formal requirements for a European payment system for barter-based trade with Iran designed to circumvent U.S. sanctions are now in place and it should be operational soon, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in Tehran on Monday. Maas is in Iran to meet President Hassan Rouhani...