Two militants were killed on Friday morning by Indian forces in clashes near the capital of India-administered Jammu and Kashmir.  Three Indian soldiers were wounded in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar amid the third major gunfight in the Kashmir region in the last 24...

New Zealand honored the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks in a commemoration ceremony on Friday. Around 25,000 New Zealanders attended the memorial service for the 50 slain Muslim worshippers, including four children, who were killed in the twin attacks on the Al Noor and...

The Israeli army has deployed reinforcements along fraught Gaza-Israel buffer zone in advance of anticipated Palestinian rallies on Saturday marking the first anniversary of Gaza’s “Great Return” march. Saturday’s planned demonstration will also mark Palestinian Land Day, which...

By Ben Hubbard AL HOL CAMP, Syria — She left the Netherlands to join the Islamic State in Syria, and married a fighter here. He was killed, so she married another, who got her pregnant before he was killed, too. Then this month, as the Islamic State collapsed, she surrendered with her...

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Algiers Friday, piling pressure on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign days after the country's powerful military called for his removal. The army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Gaed Salah, on Tuesday asked the constitutional council to...

Britain would secure a new Brexit date of May 22 if its Parliament approves the EU divorce deal on Friday, the bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Friday. "Important vote today in House of Commons. As a reminder, approval of Withdrawal Agreement by 29 March will secure extension...

A prominent Egyptian activist has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for organising an illegal protest, his family says. Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to prominence during the 2011 uprising against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He was arrested in...

The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intelligent mammals, but the numbers involved   a record 1,100 have landed on France’s Atlantic coast beaches since...

Investigators probing the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia have reached a preliminary conclusion that a suspect anti-stall system activated shortly before it nose-dived to the ground, the WSJ reported Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The findings were based on...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report released Thursday that the identification of bodies in mass graves in Raqqa province is an international responsibility, noting that there are nearly 4,247 forcibly disappeared persons in Raqqa governorate whose fate...

The U.S.-led coalition says more than 1,250 civilians were killed in 34,038 airstrikes against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria during a more than four-year period. The coalition in a statement Thursday released the civilian death toll from the period between when the aerial campaign began in...

The U.N. envoy to Yemen said Thursday the redeployment of rival factions in the key port city of Hodeida is "slow" but will happen. A cease-fire agreed on in December in Sweden by the rival parties is holding, Martin Griffiths told The Associated Press. The city has been the focus of months...

Venezuela's auditor general's office announced Thursday it has stripped opposition leader and speaker of congress Juan Guaido of the right to hold public office for 15 years. The move, announced by Auditor General Elvis Amoroso on state television, marked another effort by President Nicolas...

Sudanese police fired tear gas at protesters defying a nationwide state of emergency on Thursday, with demonstrations in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere, witnesses said. Protests and deadly clashes have rocked Sudan for more than three months, fuelled by accusations that the government...

Despite all the difficulties his project had faced for a year, Riadh Abu Adel Al Sawadi has continued his unique experiment in the production of earthworm compost in his town in northern Idlib province. His experiment began in China, where he lived for five years, returning to his...

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of central Algiers again on Thursday to demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and changes to the political system after the powerful army called for the veteran leader to be removed. The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General...

Jens Stoltenberg will receive two new years as NATO Secretary General until 2022, the bloc announced on Thursday.   “NATO Allies agreed today to extend the mandate of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg by a further two years, until 30 September 2022”, NATO announced its website....

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel is prepared to wage a broad military campaign in Gaza but only as a last resort, after a two-day flareup of cross-border fighting less than two weeks before an Israeli election. “All Israelis should know that if a...

Saudi Arabia’s secretive hearings for 11 suspects accused in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi fall short of international standards and should be open to the public and trial observers, a U.N. human rights expert said on Thursday. Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on...

President Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to seal the US-Mexican border, claiming in a tweet that America's southern neighbor is allowing illegal immigrants to cross unhindered. "May close the Southern Border!" the president wrote. "Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the...