Amid ongoing protests against his rule, Algeria’s president on Monday reaffirmed his decision to hold a national conference meant to lead to a constitutional referendum. In a letter reported by local media, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 82, said that Algeria is about to change its political...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of people went to streets in southern Daraa city commemorating the eighth anniversary of the Syrian revolution, local activists said Monday. Demonstrators, who held up the three-star flag of the Syrian revolution, have renewed the 8-year-old demand to...

France's defense minister questioned Monday whether the US commitment to the NATO alliance is "perennial" and said Europe needs to build defense "autonomy" as that question goes unanswered. With Washington increasingly focused on the strategic challenge from China, Florence Parly said, "a...

Last week’s terror attacks in New Zealand that killed at least 50 mosque worshippers were not “an individual act, but organized,” Turkey’s president said Monday. “We speak once again from Canakkale after 104 years, and say we have received your message,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during...

There is an increase in religious discrimination and hate crimes in Spain, according to a report issued by the country’s Interior Ministry.  “We have observed an increase, even though not at an alarming level, in Islamophobia and attacks against Muslims, and in religious hate in...

A suspected shooter in the Netherlands fired upon a relative in a tram due to a family dispute, as well as others trying to intercede to defuse the situation, relatives of the shooter said Monday. Three people were killed and five injured after Gokmen Tanis, 37, shot at tram passengers in...

The New Zealand mosque attacks that left 50 worshippers dead could be replicated in the U.K., the British securities minister said on Monday. Ben Wallace said such an attack "absolutely could happen" in the U.K. and that the government is considering to increase security funds for British...

Hundreds of protesters, mostly students, took to the streets in and near Sudan's capital Khartoum Monday, continuing a three-month wave of demonstrations that has posed the most serious challenge yet to President Omar al-Bashir's three-decade rule. Students, activists and other protesters...

Israeli forces on Monday hunted a Palestinian who they said killed two people in the occupied West Bank, an attack that put security back at the forefront of the country's electoral campaign. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose popularity rests largely on his reputation as a security...

Investigators probing the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia have found similarities in direction data with an aeroplane that came down off Indonesia, a source said, heightening pressure on the world’s biggest planemaker. The Ethiopian Airlines disaster killed 157 people eight days ago and...

French business leaders are calling for urgent action following Saturday's violent Yellow Vest protests, with the country’s critical tourism sector sounding the alarm as the spring travel season starts. Trails of smoke, smashed storefronts and ransacked shops are not the vision tourists...

German defence spending will rise next year but then drop off again as a percentage of GDP, Berlin said Monday, in news expected to anger US President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly attacked Germany and other NATO allies for falling far short of meeting the target of spending two...

The Israeli Security Forces violated international human rights and humanitarian law in Palestine's occupied Gaza strip, the UN commission said on Monday. "Some of those violations may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity, and must be immediately investigated by Israel," Betty...

The head of the Dutch counter-terror agency said there were shootings at "several" locations in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday. In a video statement on Twitter, Utrecht Mayor Jan van Zanen said three people were killed and nine injured, three of them seriously. He added that...

The death of a Kurdish activist on hunger strike in a Turkish prison sparked clashes between supporters and police near his grave on Monday as his lawyers and Kurdish party officials said he had committed suicide. Zulkuf Gezen, who died late Sunday, was one of scores of detainees on hunger...

Facebook said Monday it would begin directing some of its funds to support US journalism efforts to so-called "news deserts" with little or no media coverage. The leading social network said its Journalism Project Community Network would begin taking proposals in May from areas lacking in...

Iran's president on Monday urged Iranians to put a curse on the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, reiterating his long-standing charge that the U.S. and its allies are responsible for the country's ailing economy. President Hassan Rouhani's remarks were meant to deflect criticism...

 U.S.-backed fighters said they had taken positions in Daesh's (ISIS) last enclave in eastern Syria and airstrikes pounded the tiny patch of land beside the Euphrates River early on Monday, a Reuters journalist said. Smoke rose over the tiny enclave as warplanes and artillery...

Several people were wounded in a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday, police said, adding that the shooter is still on the run. Emergency services flooded the area around a busy traffic intersection in the west of the city where the shooting took place. "A...

Falling bombs raised smoke over Islamic State’s last enclave in east Syria on Sunday, obscuring the huddle of vehicles and makeshift shelters to which the group’s self-declared “caliphate” has been reduced. Air strikes and artillery began hitting the area and smoke billowed overhead late...