Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian and wounded 42 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, the Palestinian health ministry said, after days of rising tensions along the frontier. The Israeli military said over 8,000 Palestinians took part in...

Foreign women with Islamic State have tried to assault others they deem “infidels” at a camp where they are being held in northeast Syria, trying to impose their views even as the jihadists are facing territorial defeat, Reuters journalists visiting the site have found. “They yell at us...

A shaky peace deal in South Sudan stands a chance of success despite delays in implementing it and many lingering unresolved issues, the UN envoy said Friday. The agreement signed in September provides for a power-sharing government that will prepare elections meant to turn the page on five...

President Michel Aoun Friday reiterated his call for assistance to be provided to Syrian refugees after they return to their country, during talks with the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.

Germany will not follow Britain’s lead in declaring Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a senior official was quoted as saying on Friday, a decision that may fuel tensions with Saudi Arabia and the United States. Minister of State Niels Annen told weekly news magazine Der...

(Syrian Network for Human Rights)- Syrian women’s fundamental rights – whether social, security-related, economic, health or psychological – have deteriorated severely at every level following the Syrian regime’s brutal retaliation against Syrian society in response to the outbreak of the...

Tens of thousands of Algerians packed central Algiers to capacity on Friday to challenge President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 20-year-old rule in the biggest protests in the capital in 28 years. While the demonstrations were mostly peaceful, police used tear gas to block the road to the...

 U.S-backed fighters will resume their assault on Islamic State’s last, small patch of ground in eastern Syria if no more civilians come out by Saturday afternoon, one of their spokesmen said on Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have slowed their offensive on the jihadist...

US President Donald Trump declared a victory Friday in the Russia collusion investigation after his former campaign chief received an unexpectedly light sentence in a high-profile case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. "Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated...

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Friday called for donations from its popular base because it says it is coming under financial pressure as a result of Western sanctions. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's appeal came after Britain announced on February 25 that it would seek to make...

At least 42 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli sniper fire in renewed protests along the Gaza-Israel border Friday, the enclave's health ministry said. A statement from the ministry's spokesman said 42 people "were shot by Israeli occupation forces" during the 50th week of often-violent...

Saudi Arabia's air defense systems shot down a drone over the kingdom Friday, the Arab coalition in Yemen said, and it accused the country's Houthi rebels of launching the aircraft and targeting civilians. Some civilians suffered light injuries from debris when the drone was shot down,...

Defeated but unrepentant, some jihadists limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise the Islamic State and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies. The skeletal and dishevelled figures shuffling out of the smouldering ashes of the "caliphate" may look like...

More than 62,000 people uprooted by fighting around Islamic State’s last pocket in Syria have flooded al-Hol displacement camp in Syria, with 5,200 arriving between March 5-7 and thousands more expected, the United Nations said on Friday. “Al-Hol camp has significantly surpassed its...

The U.N. refugee agency says it is opening its first reception center in Colombia to support people leaving neighboring Venezuela. UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic says the center set up along with Colombian authorities in the border city of Maicao opens Friday and can initially take in up to...

British Prime Minister Theresa May was battling Friday to stave off another defeat for her Brexit divorce deal, imploring the European Union to make concessions to help her win approval from Parliament. In a speech just three weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU, May planned to tell...

The Taliban denied on Friday that they were discussing a ceasefire and dialogue with the Kabul government during ongoing talks with the US in Doha, contrary to statements from Washington. "This phase is about fleshing out the details of the two issues... the withdrawal of all occupying...

Turkish and Russian patrols will begin in Syria's northwestern Idlib region on Friday as part of a deal agreed last year, Turkey's defense minister said. The militant-controlled Idlib province has been protected from a major offensive by the Syrian regime following the September agreement...

An all-women run education center at a refugee camp in Syria has become "a source of hope" for women and young girls, its manager said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Fadi Ibrahim, the manager of the Ruvayda education center, said: “Our aim is to support women and young girls to hold on to...

An academic and former head of a research institute was Friday appointed as Seoul's new unification minister, the South's key point of contact on inter-Korean affairs. The appointment of Kim Yeon-chul comes days after the US and North Korea held a second much-anticipated summit in Vietnam,...