Israel has failed to overcome U.S. objections to its plan to sell 12 used fighter jets to Croatia and the $500 million deal will likely be canceled, Croatia's defense minister said Thursday. Israel reached a tentative deal with Croatia in March for the sale of the upgraded F-16 Barak...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use emergency powers to bypass Congress and get billions of dollars to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, as a partial U.S. government shutdown over the issue stretched into its 20th day. As he departed Washington for a trip to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local civil initiatives opened the first rehabilitation center for children with disabilities last December in the northeastern city of Jarablus, seeking more integration and adaptation in the post-war phase.  The center adopts the learning-through-playing as an...

Iraqi special forces deployed Thursday in Kirkuk after the raising of the Kurdish flag over a political party headquarters revived tensions more than a year after Baghdad seized the disputed northern city. Iraq's counter-terrorism chief gave President Barham Saleh's Patriotic Union of...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria announced by President Donald Trump last month will go ahead despite widespread criticism. "President Trump's decision to withdraw our troops has been made. We will do that," Pompeo told a joint...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday U.S. sanctions against his country were "fully illegal" and Tehran would not comply with them. "We believe that we should not comply with the illegal sanctions against Iran," Zanganeh told a joint news conference in Baghdad with his...

A trip to Moscow next week by the leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas has been cancelled, Interfax news agency quoted the ambassador for the Palestinian Authority to Russia as saying Thursday. The Hamas leader had been expected to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was holding talks with Egyptian leaders in Cairo Thursday as he continued a nine-nation Mideast tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that the Trump administration is not walking away from the region. Amid confusion and concern over plans...

The main militant alliance in Idlib region reached a deal Thursday ending days of deadly fighting with rival rebels and extending its influence over the whole rebel enclave. The agreement brings an immediate end to the fighting between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Al-Qaeda's former...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday there was no timeframe for the assessment of the case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, a Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her.  The U.N. refugee agency has referred...

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad expressed optimism Wednesday over dialogue with Kurdish groups that want to strike a political deal with Damascus, suggesting progress had been made in contacts mediated by Russia. Kurdish-led groups who control swathes of northern Syria have...

Vinicius Junior starred and Real Madrid steadied the ship as a 3-0 win over Leganes on Wednesday put them on the brink of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. Vinicius, the 18-year-old Brazilian signed by Madrid last summer, capped an electric display at the Santiago Bernabeu with a...

A Chinese envoy on Wednesday accused Canada and its allies of "Western egotism and white supremacy" for demanding the immediate release of two Canadians held for alleged spying. In a letter published by The Hill Times newspaper, China's ambassador to Canada Lu Shaye also criticized the...

Former Disney animation chief John Lasseter, who resigned last year after acknowledging he made staff feel uncomfortable with unwanted hugs, has landed a new job at Skydance Media, the company said Wednesday. Lasseter, famous for transforming Pixar from a small graphics department at...

Ford and Volkswagen are preparing to announce a strategic partnership, including in areas such as self-driving and electric autos, a person with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Wednesday. The announcement could come Tuesday during this year's Detroit auto show, the person said....

U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday over funding for a border wall with Mexico, and said on Twitter the White House meeting to end a government shutdown was "a total waste of time." U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of...

By David Hearst Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have hatched a plan with Israel to welcome Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the Arab League to marginalise the regional influence of Turkey and Iran, Middle East Eye can exclusively reveal. The...

Iran said Wednesday that it would reciprocate after the European Union added two Iranian individuals and an Iranian intelligence unit to the bloc's terrorist list. EU ministers agreed Tuesday to add the names to the list and freeze their assets, effective from Wednesday, as the...

After being stranded at sea for almost three weeks with 49 migrants and refugees on board arrived in Malta on Wednesday. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Wednesday that they will be re-distributed among eight European Union countries. The migrants, including a baby and several...

The governor of Kirkuk on Wednesday asked the central government in Baghdad to send military reinforcements to the province after members of a Kurdish political party raised Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) flags at a rally. Late Tuesday, Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk dispersed a...