Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shtayyeh will announce the make-up of his new government in the coming days, Palestinian officials said Monday. Shtayyeh has until April 14 to form a new government which is expected to exclude all supporters of Hamas, longtime rival to the...

Sudan's army deployed around its Khartoum headquarters Monday as thousands of protesters urging the military to back calls for leader Omar al-Bashir's resignation defied tear gas to demonstrate for a third day, witnesses said. "When the army is here, we have no fear," protesters flashing...

The French government must implement bold tax cuts, the prime minister said Monday, after a mass public consultation called in the wake of "yellow vest" protests that shook President Emmanuel Macron. Giving the first conclusions of a "Great National Debate" which was launched in January in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has listed conditions to accept a U.S. back-channel peace plan known as "deal of the century", in a move seen by analysts as aiming to court voters ahead of Tuesday's general election. In an interview with Israel Hayom newspaper, Netanyahu, the...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged $200 million in aid to Yemen, to be spent during the month of Ramadan, the UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation said on Monday. Both countries are working with humanitarian organizations to ensure the aid would be...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he planned to discuss a possible Turkish military operation in Syria when he visits Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. Erdogan has vowed to crush U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters east of the...

  At least dozens of Syrian refugees returned to their home country Monday in the latest in a series of voluntary returns organized by Lebanese General Security. Syrian state-run media agency SANA reported Monday afternoon that groups of refugees had crossed the border into Syria...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- One year has passed since regime forces targeted Douma, the capital of Eastern Ghouta suburbs, with chemical gas that left dozens killed and wounded. The victims were in shelters and underground basements to escape the heavy shelling on the city...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called for "immediate halt" to military operations against the Libyan capital. In a statement, Pompeo said Washington is "deeply concerned" about fighting near Tripoli, saying that there is no military solution to the Libya conflict. His remarks...

The family of Palestinian protester Ahed Tamimi says her younger brother has been arrested in their home in the occupied West Bank. Their father, Bassem Tamimi, says soldiers broke in early Monday and arrested 15-year-old Mohammad. He says Mohammad broke his arm over the weekend running...

British voters want a strong leader who is willing to break the rules and force through wide scale reform after three years of Brexit crisis pushed confidence in the political system to a 15-year low. The 2016 referendum revealed a United Kingdom divided over much more than EU membership,...

Over three months, France's "Great National Debate" has led to 10,000 local meetings, around two million online contributions and 100 hours of presidential talking. On Monday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe begins trying to make sense of it all. The debate was launched in January by...

The Houthi administration on Sunday declared a state of emergency after hike in cholera cases in regions it controls, said an official. Taha al-Mutawakkil, the health minister of the Houthi-run administration in Sanaa, said the emergency aimed to combat the epidemic cholera, according to...

Nine Palestinian refugees have been recently pronounced dead as a result of torture in Syrian government prisons. The list includes Mohamed Amayri, from Yarmouk Camp. The latter breathed his last after eight years in Syrian jails. He was kidnapped by pro-government militias in June...

The Israeli military will impose a full closure of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip during Tuesday's general election. "According to the security situation evaluation and directives of the political level, total closure will be imposed in the areas of the West Bank and the...

Fighter jets of UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday hit an airbase under the control of east-Libya based commander Khalifa Haftar, according to Libya's Al Ahrar TV.  Al-Watiyah, an airbase 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Tripoli, is the only airbase that...

The Trump administration is preparing to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "foreign terrorist organization," an unprecedented move against a national armed force that could have widespread implications for U.S. personnel and policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. Officials informed...

Sudanese security forces killed at least five protesters over the weekend during what organizers said were some of the largest demonstrations in a nearly four-month campaign to drive President Omar al-Bashir from power. The protests, which began in December, have swelled since last week's...

The paramedics’ log at al-Hol camp in eastern Syria lists the injuries and ailments of infants rushed from the battlefield to its crowded, dirty clinic: malnourishment, stunted growth, broken leg. Those in critical need – mostly emaciated babies born in war to the wives of dead Islamic...

Algeria's parliament on Tuesday will elect a new interim president, state news agency APS said on Saturday, after veteran ruler Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned following mass protests. "It was decided to hold a meeting of the two chambers of parliament on Tuesday... at 9.00am (0800 GMT)," the...