Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in clashes near a flashpoint religious site in the occupied West Bank overnight Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The health ministry said Raid Hamdan, 21, and Zaid Nouri, 20, died after being shot late Tuesday by Israeli troops...

None of the roughly 200 people who watched a live broadcast of an attack on two mosques in New Zealand reported the video to Facebook, the social media company said. The video received a full 4,000 views before it was taken down, Facebook said in a statement released Monday, adding the...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has agreed to hand over power to an elected president, and the opposition will be allowed to take part in the Cabinet that will oversee elections, the country's new deputy prime minister said on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow with...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Syrian leader Bashar Assad in Damascus Tuesday, praising the Moscow-backed Syrian regime's "fight against international terrorism." "With Russia's support, a significant success in the fight against terrorism has been achieved," Shoigu said,...

High-level U.S.-Russian talks on how to defuse Venezuela’s crisis ended on Tuesday with the two sides still at odds over the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro. Russia has said Maduro remains the country’s only legitimate leader whereas the United States and many other Western countries...

France's World Cup-winning coach Didier Deschamps has told AFP he would like to remain in his job until the 2022 finals in Qatar. The 50-year-old Deschamps, who took charge of France in 2012, guided Les Bleus to a second World Cup title in Russia, two decades after lifting the trophy as...

The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen's flashpoint city of Hodeida following talks with the government and Huthi rebels, a UN envoy said Tuesday. The redeployment of forces was agreed in December under a ceasefire deal reached in Sweden that...

Hungary opened a new trade office in west Jerusalem on Tuesday, fulfilling a February pledge by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Israel to do so in the disputed city. The opening stops short of moving Hungary's Israel embassy to Jerusalem as US President Donald Trump has done, breaking with...

Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles. The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in...

The U.S. on Tuesday blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned gold mining company CVG Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, or Minerven, in its latest effort to clamp down on the country's gold trade. Minerven President Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata was also designated in a pair of actions...

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death was part of a broader operation to crack down on dissidents, which should shed any remaining illusions about the kingdom, The New York Times said Tuesday. "It comes as little surprise, sadly, that the Saudi thugs who slaughtered Jamal Khashoggi were...

Palestinian group Hamas on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the Turkish people and leadership in the face of “Israeli provocations". “We stand by Turkey’s leadership and its people against the Israeli provocations,” Hamas’ spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday....

A bomb-laden vehicle detonated in Syrian opposition-controlled Jarabulus, leaving one fighter dead, local sources said. A car loaded with explosives from YPG/PKK-controlled Manbij was headed to the Turkish backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) Jarabulus --located in the Euphrates Shield Operation...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are now in control of an ISIS encampment in Baghouz, after weeks of operations and attacks on the village. But isolated gun battles are continuing in the area, seen as ISIS's last remaining redoubt. "This is not a victory announcement, but a...

A prominent Syrian businessman with close ties to Bashar Assad has been arrested in Kuwait, his lawyer said Tuesday. Mazen al-Tarazi was arrested late Monday at his offices, his lawyer Badr al-Yacoub told AFP. He said that he did not yet know the reasons behind his client's arrest....

 A senior U.S. arms control official said Tuesday that Iran's missile program is destabilizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a "regional arms race" through the provision of such weapons to armed groups in Lebanon and Yemen. U.S. President Donald Trump said when he quit a...

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were in disarray on Tuesday as her government sought to plot a way around a ruling by the speaker of parliament that she must change her twice-defeated divorce deal to put it to a third vote. After two-and-a-half years of negotiations, Britain’s...

Syria's Kurds have criticised the "threatening language" of the Damascus regime after it pledged to retake northeastern areas they control by reconciliation or by force. The minority have largely stayed out of Syria's war, instead carving out a de-facto autonomous region across a large...

French President Emmanuel Macron has set a new personal record for talking during a public appearance by debating for more than eight hours with intellectuals and scientists. For two and half months, the 41-year-old has criss-crossed France for town-hall meetings as part of his "Great...

Germany launched its auction Tuesday for the construction of an ultra-fast 5G mobile network as a transatlantic dispute rages over security concerns surrounding giant Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei. The United States has warned it could scale back the sharing of sensitive...