North Korea fired unidentified short-range missiles in the direction of the East Sea on Saturday, according to South Korea’s state-run Yonhap News Agency.   Yonhap cited South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying the North “fired multiple rounds of unidentified missiles from...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than an hour on Friday, discussing the possibility of a new nuclear accord, North Korean denuclearization, Ukraine and the political situation in Venezuela, the White House said. “Had a long and very good...

South Sudan's once-warring parties have agreed to delay key next steps in a fragile peace deal by six months after the main opposition warned it might walk away. Friday's agreement came after talks in Ethiopia. The chairman of a smaller opposition party that attended, Denay Chagor,...

 A Yemeni official say a bomb has exploded in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, killing three people and wounding four. A local police official said the bomb went off Friday near a hub for motorcycle taxis in al-Qoton district and that two of the wounded are in critical...

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip Friday, the enclave's Health Ministry said, in what the Israeli army called a response to the wounding of two soldiers along the border. "Two citizens were killed and two others seriously wounded by Israeli occupation...

The removal of tough US tariffs on Chinese goods will be part of enforcing any new trade deal between Beijing and Washington, US Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. Pence told CNBC television that President Donald Trump remained "very hopeful" about the current round of trade talks,...

A Kurdish-led Syrian force said Friday it believes in dialogue with the government but warned a settlement on the future of territory it controls cannot arrive through a Damascus-prescribed "reconciliation" agreement. "We are ready for dialogue with the Syrian regime, with the central...

Eleven members of Turkey's leading medical association were sentenced to prison terms on Friday over criticisms of a military offensive against Kurdish militants in Syria last year. They were given 20 months in prison for "inciting hatred and hostility," one of those convicted, Seyhmus...

The UN's special envoy for Syria met Friday in Geneva with top diplomats from a "small group" of countries.  Representatives from Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the U.K. and the U.S. attended the meeting with Geir O. Pedersen, aiming to revive the Geneva process, which...

The European Union on Friday called for protecting inhabitants of Syria’s northwestern Idlib province and ensuring humanitarian access to the province.  "With the marked increase of airstrikes over Idlib province and northern Hama over the past weeks and days, we are once again running...

Spain will not allow its embassy in Caracas to be used as a political center for opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez, acting Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said in Lebanon on Friday. Lopez, an ally of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, took refuge at the Spanish residence with his...

Heavy fighting raged overnight in the battle for the Libyan capital Tripoli, with neither faction able to secure gains on the frontlines as an offensive by eastern commander Khalifa Haftar entered its fifth week. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel...

When the little known Islamist group National Thowfeek Jamaath launched a series of suicide-bombing attacks targeting churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, triggering one of the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11, many counter-terrorism experts suspected the guidance of an unseen...

Thousands of protesters rallied peacefully in Algiers after Friday prayers, chanting "We will not shut up!" and demanding the departure of Algeria's ruling elite a month after the downfall of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Weeks of demonstrations forced Bouteflika out of office April 2...

 A Libyan television channel says two of its reporters were kidnapped by forces loyal to a military commander while covering fighting in the capital, Tripoli. Libya Alahrar TV said in a statement Friday that forces allied with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar allegedly detained the...

Syrian rebel fighters repelled an attack by government forces following brief clashes Friday at the southern edge of the last rebel-held enclave in Syria, activists and the insurgents said. It was the first attempted ground operation to violate a shaky seven-month truce. The clashes came...

French prosecutors and police inspectors have opened an investigation after an officer was seen hurling a paving stone at protesters during May Day demonstrations in Paris, sources said Friday. The incident -- captured in video footage posted on social media this week -- occurred as riot...

The Israeli army on Friday detained 15 people, including both Palestinians and pro-Palestine foreign activists, in the West Bank city of Al-Khalil [Hebron], according to an Anadolu Agency photojournalist. An Israeli military force detained the 15 as they attempted to fix a road that runs...

Saudi Arabia’s oil output may edge up in June, sources familiar with the kingdom’s policy said, but the extra crude may be used for domestic power generation rather than providing the boost to exports that Washington has been seeking. The sources said any rise in Saudi output would still be...

Huawei Technologies said it will “vigorously oppose” a motion filed by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday to disqualify its lead defense lawyer from a case accusing the Chinese company of bank fraud and sanctions violations. According to a filing in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York,...