An explosion near two schools in the rebel-held Yemeni capital killed 14 children and wounded 16, the UN said Tuesday, but the cause of the weekend blast remains unclear. Most of the child casualties in the city's Saewan district were girls under the age of nine, according to statements by...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish Coast Guard rescued an unidentified child after a boat’s drown.  The child was traveling with his family to the Mytilene Greek Island and was taken to a Turkish hospital. Amer Abu Taim, an activist who works as a driver in Izmir and helps...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday strongly condemned the military escalation near Tripoli and called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Libya. The appeal followed an air attack by the forces of commander Khalifa Haftar on the Mitiga airport east of the capital....

Saudi Arabia welcomes the U.S. decision to designate Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, Saudi state media said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, led by a Sunni Muslim royal family, has accused Shiite Muslim Iran of interfering in its and other Middle...

The appointment of upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah accords with Algeria’s constitution but many people oppose him because he is part of a ruling caste that has dominated Algeria since independence from France in 1962. The protest movement demands the overhaul of a secretive...

Algerian lawmakers began a session Tuesday to pick an interim president after Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned last week in the face of mass protests against his rule, state media reported. Under the constitution, Parliament should nominate the speaker of the upper house, Abdelkader Bensalah,...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday defended the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as protectors of Iran a day after the United States labeled the group as a foreign terrorist organization. U.S. President Donald Trump designated Iran’s Guards a foreign terrorist...

Suicide bombers disguised as farmers struck an army position in western Syria on Tuesday in an attack that killed three people and all the militants, state-run media said. The attack north of Hama city adds to pressures on Russian-Turkish agreements that have contained the war in...

British Prime Minister Theresa May meets the leaders of Germany and France on Tuesday in a last-gasp bid to keep her country from crashing out of the European Union later this week. Her huddles with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris come...

The U.S. on Monday designated 16 Saudi officials for their roles in the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. All of those who were blacklisted as well as their immediate family members are now ineligible for entry into the United States. Among the 16 individuals are Saud...

Israeli voters on Tuesday began to cast ballot to elect members of Knesset (Israel's parliament). Voting is taking place at 10,720 polling stations across the country, plus another 96 at Israeli embassies and consulates abroad. There are 6.3 million eligible voters in Israel, according...

 The British government said on Monday it had taken the necessary steps required by law to participate in European Parliament elections in May, but that this did not mean it was inevitable Britain would take part. Britain is due to leave the EU on Friday, but Prime Minister Theresa May...

Canada may have to crack down on the world’s major social media companies with new regulations to combat potential foreign meddling in this October’s election, the cabinet minister in charge of ensuring a fair vote said on Monday. Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould spoke shortly...

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US had designated Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "foreign terrorist organisation" as part of efforts to increase international pressure on the country. The US has never before used the "terrorist" designation for a foreign government...

Turkey's president said Monday that Turkey and Russia both want to eliminate terrorists from Idlib, a region in northwestern Syria near Turkish borders. "Ankara will never allow [the presence of] an entity that poses a threat to Turkish and Syrian territorial integrity," Recep Tayyip...

In March, President Donald Trump's administration lavished praise on the Kingdom of Morocco for taking back eight Moroccans who had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State terror organization.  "Repatriating foreign terrorist fighters to their countries of origin is the best...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks focusing on the situation in Syria, the sale of advanced Russian missiles to Turkey and other economic deals. Erdogan's visit to Russia, his third this year, underlined increasingly close...

A warplane carried out an air strike Monday against the Libyan capital's only functioning airport, authorities at the site said, as fighting raged for control of Tripoli. A security source at Mitiga airport east of the city said no side had yet claimed responsibility for the raid, which hit...

French striker Ousmane Dembele is close to shaking off a thigh strain and was named in Ernesto Valverde's Barcelona squad on Wednesday for the Champions League quarter-finals first-leg at Manchester United. The 21-year-old World Cup winner has excelled on both flanks this season after a...

New Zealand’s Royal Commission inquiry into deadly shooting attacks on two Christchurch mosques would report back to the government by December 10, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. The inquiry would look into the suspected gunman’s activities, use of social media...