Thousands of supporters of an Iraqi populist Shiite cleric held sit-ins Friday around Iraq, saying their country should not be a battlefield between the United States and Iran. The sit-ins came days after a rocket slammed into Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, landing less than a mile from...

Police in France were on Saturday hunting a suspect following a blast in a pedestrian street in the heart of the city of Lyon that wounded more than a dozen people just two days ahead of the country's hotly contested European Parliament elections. President Emmanuel Macron called the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Saturday a US decision to deploy 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East is a "threat to international peace," state media reported. "Increased US presence in our region is very dangerous and a threat to international peace and security...

At least 29 prisoners were killed and 19 police wounded in clashes at a jail in western Venezuela Friday, authorities said. The incident at the police station jail in the town of Acarigua, in Portuguesa state, occurred when police special forces (FAES) tried to stop a "massive prison break"...

Spain is fighting to improve its international reputation, which has taken a hit from criticism of its handling of Catalonia's independence bid and its colonial past. Spain's reputation dropped in Germany, Italy and France after Catalonia pressed ahead with a banned independence referendum...

Lebanon has "summarily deported" at least 16 Syrians, some of them registered refugees, by forcing them to sign "voluntary repatriation forms," human rights groups said on Friday. Lebanon hosts nearly one million Syrian refugees -- a significant burden for a country of four million...

At least eight people were injured in a suspected bomb attack in central Lyon Friday, French officials said. The blast occurred around 5:30 pm local time in a pedestrian street in the city in central France. President Emmanuel Macron, who was beginning a broadcast address as news of the...

North Korea said on Friday an “arbitrary and dishonest” U.S. position had resulted in the failure to reach a deal during a second North Korea-U.S. summit, warning the nuclear issue would never be resolved without a new approach. A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry accused the...

Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit after failing to deliver Brexit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union. May’s departure deepens the Brexit crisis as a new leader, who should...

After losing territory, Islamic State fighters are turning to guerrilla war - and the group’s newspaper is telling them exactly how to do it. In recent weeks, IS’s al-Naba online newspaper has encouraged followers to adopt guerrilla tactics and published detailed instructions on how to...

A hotel complex in the Libyan capital serving as a base for lawmakers opposed to strongman Khalifa Haftar was hit by rocket fire Friday, witnesses said. The internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) blamed the attack at the Rixos Hotel and Conference Centre on Haftar's...

 U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he will send about 1,500 American troops to the Middle East, mostly as a protective measure, amid heightened tensions with Iran. He said the deployment involved a relatively small number of troops. The forces would help strengthen American...

Yemen's internationally recognized president sent a letter to the U.N. chief, criticizing his envoy to the war-torn Arab country over allegedly siding with Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the president's office said Friday. In the letter addressed to Antonio Guterres, Yemeni President Abed...

Algerian police arrested dozens of people Friday at the Grand Post Office, a key rallying point for protesters in the capital Algiers, witnesses and journalists said. An AFP journalist saw a woman arrested near the post office, where security fences were erected this week in an attempt to...

A top Sudanese general vowed to back regional ally Saudi Arabia against "all threats and attacks" from its rival Iran during talks with the kingdom's powerful crown prince, Sudan's ruling military council said Friday. General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy chief of Sudan's new...

A Saudi tanker damaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in mid-May appears to have leaked a trail of oil, satellite images released on Friday show. Radar satellites operated by the Finnish company Iceye photographed the vessel Amjad on May 14, two days after it and three other...

Police arrested nearly 260 people in clashes following a mass protest in the capital Jakarta on Wednesday. The arrests for at least 257 suspects were made around the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) building, as well as Petamburan and Gambir areas. Argo Yuwono, the spokesman for...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday U.S. complaints against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd might be resolved within the framework of a U.S.-China trade deal, while at the same time calling the Chinese telecommunications giant “very dangerous.” Washington last week effectively banned U.S....

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- A recent study by the Social Planning Office showed that about half of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands, who came between 2014 and 2016, prefer permanent stability there. The study mentioned that about 6,000 Syrian refugees may get the...

Oman is trying “with other parties” to reduce tensions between the United States and Iran, the Omani Foreign Ministry tweeted on Friday. The tweet cited Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the sultanate’s minister responsible for foreign affairs, who met on Monday in Tehran with Iranian Foreign...