Israel eased the fishing limit off the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday, an official said, a week after cutting it in response to incendiary balloons. The limit has now been restored to a maximum of 15 nautical miles, the Israeli official said on condition of anonymity. It is the same...

(Action Group For Palestinians of Syria)- Hundreds of Palestinian youths were forced to join the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian government, in May. The list includes university graduates or those whose deferment of studies license expired by March 15....

Ten members of Syria’s White Helmets and their families are still living in a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert, with their applications for asylum in Canada stalled over security concerns, nearly a year after the federal government won plaudits for leading the operation to save them....

Iran called U.S. sanctions “economic war” on Monday, and said there could be no talks with the United States until sanctions are lifted, a day after Washington suggested it could hold talks without pre-conditions if Iran changed its behavior. “#EconomicTerrorism against Iran targets...

Doctors working in rebel-held northern Syria will no longer share the locations of medical facilities with the United Nations after doing so failed to stop them being targeted by airstrikes. Some 25 hospitals have been bombed by Syrian government and Russian forces in the past month, as the...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Oct. 31 should be the "final" deadline for Britain's much-delayed withdrawal from the European Union. Macron was among those EU leaders opposed to granting Britain a long extension of its date for divorce when it was moved from March...

A U.S. aircraft carrier the White House ordered to the Mideast over a perceived threat from Iran remains outside of the Gulf amid efforts to de-escalate tensions between Tehran and Washington. The USS Abraham Lincoln on Monday was in the Arabian Sea some 320 kilometers off the coast of...

Apple Inc. on Monday launched a "Sign In With Apple" function to rival Facebook and Google web login accounts, drawing a contrast with rivals by stressing protection of users' private information. Apple also said it would tighten controls on location tracking. When users sign in with their...

Russia has told the United States that it has withdrawn most of its personnel from Venezuela, US President Donald Trump said Monday, two months after telling Moscow to "get out" of the crisis-plagued Latin American nation. "Russia has informed us that they have removed most of their people...

Russia on Monday blocked a UN Security Council statement criticizing Syria's military campaign in the Idlib region that Western powers fear will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. Russia said in a note seen by AFP that the proposed statement was "unbalanced" because it did not mention the...

Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria on Monday started sending home 800 Syrian women and children who had been evacuated from the Islamic State group's "caliphate". They also handed over five Norwegian orphans who had been stranded in the same camp of Al-Hol following a visit by a...

Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain’s next prime minister, promised on Monday to lead the country out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without an exit deal, launching his leadership bid in a campaign video. Prime Minister Theresa May is due to resign on Friday having failed to...

Sri Lankan Muslim politicians holding top government positions have resigned, saying they want to enable the government to investigate allegations against some of them on links to Islamist extremist militants. Nine Cabinet and junior ministers and two provincial governors resigned Monday,...

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, interim leader of Sudan where protesters allege security forces broke up a weeks-long sit-in through a deadly operation Monday, was largely unknown until mid April. A doctors' committee said at least 13 people were killed as gunfire echoed from the protest...

A Baghdad court Monday sentenced to death two more French nationals for belonging to the Islamic State group, leaving all 11 Frenchmen transferred from Syria facing the gallows in Iraq. Bilel Kabaoui, 32, and Mourad Delhomme, 41, join nine other French citizens and a Tunisian national...

Huawei will sell its majority share in a submarine cable unit, the stake's buyer announced Monday, amid a US-led drive to isolate the Chinese telecom giant from global information networks over spying fears. US President Donald Trump has attacked Huawei in recent months, urging allies to...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Dutch counterpart will discuss Iran and Venezuela during talks in The Hague on Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said. They were meeting on the sidelines of a U.S.-Dutch entrepreneurship conference in the Netherlands. “We will talk...

The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria Monday handed over five orphans from families of Daesh (ISIS) to Norwegian authorities, a spokesperson said. "Following a request made by the Kingdom of Norway ... five Norwegian orphans related to Islamic State jihadists were handed over to a...

 Israel launched a second round of strikes against Syria in 24 hours Sunday, state media reported, as U.S. President Donald Trump called on Russia and Iran to "stop bombing the hell" out of the war-torn country. Syria accused Israel of targeting an airbase in Homs province, reportedly...

The Kremlin insisted Monday that the Russian army was targeting "terrorists" in Syria's last militant stronghold of Idlib, accusing them of firing at civilians and Moscow's troops. "Terrorist fire in Idlib is of course unacceptable," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters....