The fight for control of Libya's capital is depriving tens of thousands of pupils of their education, with high school students displaced by the violence fretting about their future. "We've fallen behind... and I don't even know where we will sit our final exams or how they will calculate...

British Prime Minister Theresa May backed down Thursday from plans to seek Parliament's support for a Brexit bill already rejected by much of her Conservative Party, as expectations rose that she would cave in to demands that she resign. Conservative lawmakers have given May until Friday to...

Bombings by Syrian regime forces damaged two schools and a health facility in the rebels' last stronghold in the northwest, activists said Thursday, after insurgents successfully hit a power station in a regime-held town. Fighting has raged in the last 48 hours in the region, where...

 Tarek Haddad, who got a chance of a program of special care provided by Canada to refugees, is another Syrian honored the image of a successful refugee, which is often expressed in the Western dictionary as “integration”. According to the  L’Express, the 27-year-old has escaped...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scored a dramatic election victory on Thursday, putting his Hindu nationalist party on course to increase its majority on a mandate of business-friendly policies and a tough stand on national security. His re-election reinforces a global trend of...

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan Thursday confirmed that the Pentagon was considering sending additional U.S. troops to the Middle East as one of the ways to bolster protection for American forces there amid tensions with Iran. "What we're looking at is: Are there things that...

An Iraqi security official says a car bomb has exploded in a western village near the Syrian border, killing two people and wounding two others. The official said the blast occurred Thursday afternoon in the village of Karabila, which until two years ago was controlled by Daesh (ISIS). The...

Iran will not surrender to U.S. pressure and will not abandon its goals even if it is bombed, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday, stepping up the war of words between the Islamic Republic and the United States. Earlier in the day, Iran's top military chief said the standoff between...

Syrian regime aircraft bombed several towns in northwestern Syria on Thursday killing five civilians as troops and militia battled jihadists on the ground, a monitor said. The new bombardment of the largely jihadist-controlled region of Idlib followed strikes on Tuesday night and Wednesday...

Thousands more people have fled violence in northwest Syria, the United Nations and a medical agency said on Thursday, as an army assault on the last big rebel enclave met a counter-attack. President Bashar al-Assad launched his offensive at the end of April in Idlib and parts of adjacent...

Yemen's Houthi group said it launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery in the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, the group's Al-Masirah TV said Thursday. The Houthis, who ousted the Saudi-backed Yemeni president from power in the capital Sanaa in 2014,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese army gave notice to the Syrian refugees living in concrete tents in 14 camps in Arsal town, until June 10, before demolishing it, such a decision coincides with a situation of mounting disappointment among refugees, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter....

The head of the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees Thursday rejected a U.S. call to dismantle the agency, saying it cannot be blamed for stalled peace efforts. UNRWA's commissioner general Pierre Krahenbuhl rebuffed the criticism from U.S. envoy Jason Greenblatt during a...

Sudan's protest leaders are calling for mass rallies across the country amid deadlocked negotiations with the ruling military over its handover of power. The Sudanese Professionals' Association, which has spearheaded four months of protests that drove Omar al-Bashir from power in April,...

Rebels in Syria fired four rockets towards Russia's Hmeymim air base in Syria, but all the rockets were destroyed, the RIA news agency cited Russia's Defense Ministry as saying Thursday. Reuters

UN envoy Ghassan Salame has bitterly denounced the conflict in Libya saying it is "committing suicide" and plundering its oil wealth to pay for the war. The north African country was "a textbook example of foreign interference today in local conflicts," Salame told a New York-based think...

France granted asylums to 28 Yazidi women and their children, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In a written statement, the ministry said Yazidi women with their children, who suffered at the hands of Daesh terrorist group, flew from the northern Iraqi city of Erbil to the...

Iran’s youth will witness the demise of Israel and American civilization, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday in comments published on his official website. “You young people should be assured that you will witness the demise of the enemies of humanity, meaning...

The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a U.S. military request to send about 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East amid increasing tensions with Iran, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday. Tehran and Washington have this month been escalating rhetoric against each other,...

Oil prices dropped by around 1% on Thursday, extending falls from the previous session amid surging U.S. crude inventories and weak demand from refineries. Brent crude futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $70.36 per barrel at 0652 GMT, down 63 cents, or 0.9%, from...