The Russian defense ministry said Syrian militants rocketed Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia twice on Monday. There were no casualties and no damage at the military base, and air defense forces repelled the attack, the ministry said on its website.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday the United States has seen activity from Iran that indicated a possible “escalation,” one day after the United States said it would send a carrier strike group to the Middle East to counter a “credible threat by Iranian regime forces.” “We...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Monday warned that U.S. military intervention in Venezuela would be catastrophic and unjustified after he held talks with his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo in Finland. The two men met on the sidelines of a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland....

The US State Department said Monday it was "gravely concerned" about human rights in North Korea, including its detention of an estimated 100,000 people in political prison camps, two days after President Donald Trump again praised leader Kim Jong Un. Trump is seeking a potentially landmark...

Clashes between Syrian regime forces and jihadists Monday killed more than 26 fighters in the country's northwest, which has seen an escalation in shelling and air strikes, a monitor said. Eleven pro-government fighters were among those killed in fierce fighting in the northern countryside...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 Kurdish fighters killed by explosive devices in the northeastern province of Hasaka, Islamic State’s news agency said Monday. The first explosive device went off in vehicle carrying five Asayish forces near the town of al-Hol, east of Hasaka city, Amaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ammar al-Sheikh Haidar, former detainee and political dissident, has decided to go on a silent hunger strike and to sit in front of the Canadian consulate in Istanbul on Monday to protest against the freezing of his settlement file.  “I am no more than a burden on...

The International Criminal Court will not refer Jordan to the U.N. Security Council for its failure to arrest Sudanese war crimes suspect Omar al-Bashir when he visited Amman in 2017, judges said on Monday, reversing an earlier decision. Bashir, who was ousted in April after 30 years in...

Turkey’s High Election Board started evaluating on Monday an appeal by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party to annul and re-run elections in Istanbul that saw the opposition win control of the country’s largest city, local TV broadcasters said. The main opposition Republican People’s Party...

Iran may announce retaliatory moves against the United States on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal Wednesday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The U.S. unilaterally withdrew on May 8, 2018 from the 2015 multilateral deal known as the Joint...

They brave the sweltering summer heat and the accompanying dust to pursue their dream: building a new Sudan. While some protesters at a weeks-long sit-in outside Khartoum's army headquarters dare to hope for democracy, others say they will be content just to secure a prosperous future....

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government forces an "even harder lesson", as the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan begins. Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) launched an assault on April...

The grandparents of two children stranded with their French jihadist mother at a camp in Kurdish-held Syria are to file a lawsuit Monday at Europe's top rights court over France's refusal to allow them home, lawyers said. It is the latest challenge to the French government's opposition to...

A state of cautious calm prevailed in the Gaza Strip on Monday, two days after an Israeli military onslaught against the blockaded territory left 25 Palestinians dead -- including two infants and three women -- and scores more injured. On Saturday and Sunday, the Israeli military pounded...

Despite a fresh North Korean missile test, the United States has reaffirmed its intention to negotiate with Pyongyang on denuclearization.  Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: "We still have every intention of negotiating a good resolution with...

Germany has failed to condemn Israel’s excessive and disproportionate use of force against civilians over the weekend in the Gaza Strip. Deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer told a news conference on Monday that Israel had the right to "self-defense" and to respond appropriately to...

Liverpool will take on Barcelona in the second-leg of UEFA Champions League semifinals on Tuesday after losing 3-0 in the first-leg match.  UEFA on Sunday selected Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir for Liverpool-Barcelona match. The second leg of the semifinal match will be played in...

Former President Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever freely elected leader, is now spending his seventh Ramadan behind bars, according to Morsi’s family. A member of Egypt’s now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, Morsi was ousted and imprisoned in a 2013 military coup after only one year in...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey said on Monday that Moscow and its Syrian government ally were trying to wrest control of two major highways in their last enclave in the northwest of the country in a bid to shore up Syria’s sanction-hit economy. The sixth day of the campaign by...

Israel will resume gas production from offshore Tamar field after a ceasefire brought an end to a surge in violence in the Gaza Strip, the energy ministry said on Monday. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz had frozen operations at Tamar, Israel’s main natural gas source, on Sunday when the...