Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said electoral authorities should annul Istanbul’s local elections due to irregularities, notably over the appointment of ballot box officials, the pro-government Sabah newspaper reported on Wednesday. Initial results show the main opposition Republican...

A bomb attack in the Syrian city of Raqqa killed eight people on Tuesday, including four members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a security source in northern Syria said. The blast also killed four civilians and wounded three members of the Kurdish-led internal security...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and challenger Benny Gantz both claimed victory in Israel’s general election Tuesday, after exit polls showed the Likud and Blue and White parties neck and neck. Gantz claimed election victory after two out of three TV exit polls gave his centrist party the...

United Nations refugee chief Filippo Grandi warned on Tuesday that a deadly attack on two New Zealand mosques was the result of the worst toxicity in politics and media toward refugees, migrants and foreigners that he had witnessed in more than 30 years. In an attack broadcast live on...

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group “could have negative repercussions on Iraq and the region”. “Iraq tried to stop the decision,” Abdul Mahdi told reporters during his weekly news...

A Turkish charity on Tuesday has urged Turks to increase flour deliveries to Syria since stocks began running low due to a drop in donations. "The need for bread in Syria is too much. In recent times, our stocks of flour have decreased with the drop of donations," Serkan Oktem, the...

The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike reached 400 Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club NGO said, but an Israeli official disputed the figure. In a statement the NGO said the hunger strike, which began Monday, had grown rapidly, with 250 prisoners joining...

On March 31, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, pledged to bring home all the children of Chechens who fought for ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Kadyrov is known to be a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The announcement echoed the Russian Foreign Ministry’s very public critique of...

Germany and other European Union powers will accept Prime Minister Theresa May’s request for another delay to Brexit but French President Emmanuel Macron will seek to limit Britain’s influence as it grapples with its departure. In a sign of just how far the three-year Brexit crisis has...

Iran said on Tuesday it would press ahead with the launch of three satellites into orbit this year despite a U.S. move to curb Tehran’s ballistic missile program which Washington says has been advanced by the satellite activity. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would name...

Around 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded in dawn attacks on a sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry by protesters calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, the head of the main opposition party said on Tuesday. Veteran leader Sadiq al-Mahdi also called in a...

U.S. President Donald Trump, welcoming Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Tuesday, said a lot of progress had been made with Egypt in terms of terrorism. Trump, with Sisi at his side, also told reporters that the two had important things to discuss about military...

One year ago, a chemical attack allegedly carried out by the Syrian government on the embattled nation’s Douma district left at least 43 people dead. Two years ago, more than 100 – mostly women and children – perished in another apparently government-helmed chemical onslaught in Idlib’s Khan...

Executives from Google and Facebook are facing Congress Tuesday to answer questions about their role in the spread of hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the U.S. Neil Potts, Facebook's director of public policy and Alexandria Walden, counsel for free expression and human...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped that Israel's parliamentary elections Tuesday could help bring peace. Rightwing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was facing a close battle with centrist Benny Gantz in the polls. Without supporting a particular candidate, Abbas told...

Yellow Vest activists called for fresh protests in Paris on Tuesday after the Senate cancelled a meeting with representatives of the movement at the last minute. A group of Yellow Vest protesters had been invited by French Senator Catherine Fournier to discuss a range of issues on...

Hundreds of residents have finally left the Rukban camp for displaced persons in southeast Syria, amid a months-long Assad regime siege and Russian pressure. A local aid worker and citizen journalist Omar al-Homsi said about 500 people left on April 4 for regime territory. Another 400 departed...

Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis emphasized Tuesday the need to facilitate cross-border trade with Lebanon for the benefit of both nations, Syrian news agency SANA reported after he met with Lebanese Agriculture Minister Hasan Lakkis in Damascus.

Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadists may exploit renewed chaos. Medical facilities reported 47 people killed and 181 wounded in recent days as eastern forces seek to take...

National security and intelligence personnel fired in the air as they tried twice on Tuesday morning to disperse protesters camping outside the defense ministry in central Khartoum, witnesses said. The forces, from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service, tried to break into the...