The grand imam of Egypt's famed Al-Azhar institution, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has described polygamy as an "injustice" for women. "Polygamy is often an injustice to women and children," said the influential cleric, in quotes published on Twitter late Friday by Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's...

Barcelona won their second Clasico in four days on Saturday and Real Madrid might have to win the Champions League if Santiago Solari is to be in charge for the next one. After knocking them out of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday, Barca returned to the Santiago Bernabeu for a 1-0 victory...

Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his campaign manager on Saturday, state media reported, following mass protests against the ailing leader’s decision to stand for a fifth term in office.   Former premier Abdelmalek Sellal was replaced as campaign manager by Abdelghani...

Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov on Saturday condemned what he called America's "flagrant interference" and "destructive influence" in Venezuela, in a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo. "The provocation and external destructive influence, under the...

Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow the push on the last area they control, a spokesperson for the group said. Mustafa Bali of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

The United States is expected to move ahead with a downgrade of its mission to the Palestinians on Monday by merging its Jerusalem consulate with the embassy to Israel, a U.S. official said Saturday. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said when announcing the merger in October that it...

Ten members of Islamic State were summarily executed in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday by Tahrir al-Sham, according to Ebaa News Agency, a news outlet that supports the rival jihadist alliance. Ebaa said the executions were in response to an Islamic State suicide bomb attack at a...

France's "Yellow Vest" protesters took to the streets on Saturday, for the 16th straight weekend, some clashing with police who responded with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon. By 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) around 5,600 people had joined the protests throughout the country, most of...

A group of Yazidi women and children reunited with their families in Iraq Saturday after five years of captivity at the hands of Daesh (ISIS), hugging and kissing relatives in emotional scenes that underscored their years-long ordeal and that of their devastated community. Elated...

Pakistan said on Thursday that it was considering returning a captured Indian pilot, as U.S. President Donald Trump said American mediation was helping to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets. The pilot, identified by Islamabad as Wing Commander...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia said on Thursday it had freed 24 of its fighters from Islamic State militants in the jihadists’ last enclave near the Iraqi border. The SDF provided no details about how its fighters were recovered, and it was not immediately clear if...

United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. The independent panel said it had confidential information about those...

More than 1,000 people managed to leave ISIS held al-Baghouz towards areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to multiple reports, however 51 people also perished. On Tuesday, 1,400 individuals, including "at least" 350 ISIS members left al-Baghouz toward SDF...

Canada must prepare for the return of a dozen or more of its citizens who fought for Daesh, now that the terror organization is near collapse, authorities said Wednesday. Canada said the fighters captured in Syria would probably be released and cross into Turkey, and officials are working...

Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to eyewitnesses. The airstrike reportedly hit a target belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, west of Khan Yunis. There were no casualties, the sources...

Ukrainian pensioner Nadiya Ignatiy says she has had the plum and cherry trees in her garden cut down for firewood since the government raised gas prices late last year. In next month's election, she will vote against President Petro Poroshenko in favor of an opponent who has pledged to...

Taliban and American officials holding talks in Qatar on ways to end the war in Afghanistan have held “extensive” discussions on how foreign troops could be withdrawn and on how to guarantee the country would not be used again by outside forces to attack other countries, the Taliban said in a...

In Iraq, medicine is a matter of life or death -- not just for patients, but for doctors facing threats by vengeful relatives and emigrating en masse. Shaymaa al-Kamali, a family physician in Baghdad, said her problems began when she barred a patient's father from staying in the hospital...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped the conflict between India and Pakistan will be coming to an end, after the two nuclear powers clashed across a contested border in the disputed Kashmir region. Speaking at a news conference in Vietnam after a second summit with North...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was due to arrive in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to ratchet up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Guaido last month invoked...