Palestinian group Hamas has denied the veracity of a testimony by former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about the group’s involvement in a mass jailbreak in 2011.   In a court testimony in Cairo on Wednesday, Mubarak, 90, said 800 Hamas gunmen sneaked into Egypt during the 2011...

Cyprus police rescued five injured crew from the water following an explosion on a Maltese-flagged oil tanker off the island's south coast Saturday, authorities said. Two of the injured were taken to the capital Nicosia for treatment for burns, while the other three were admitted to...

Shehu Shagari, Nigeria's second president, whose civilian tenure was sandwiched between two military rulers in an era rocked by coups, has died. He was 93. Nigeria's current President Muhammadu Buhari, who unseated Shagari 35 years ago, said Saturday he mourns "the departure of a...

Moscow will deal with the capture of Ukrainian sailors in the Azov Sea in accordance with Russian law, while acknowledging German Chancellor Angela Merkel's position, the Russian news agency RIA quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying Saturday. Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A tribesmen militia may replace the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province following Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Elite Forces of the Saudi-backed al-Ghad movement...

Egyptian police killed 40 alleged "terrorists" in a crackdown Saturday after a roadside bomb hit a tour bus claiming the lives of three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian guide. The suspects were killed in separate raids in the Giza governorate, home to Egypt's famed pyramids and...

Foreign and defense ministers from Russia and Turkey will discuss in Moscow the United States' decision to withdraw troops from Syria, Russian news agency RIA reported Saturday, citing Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. In an abrupt policy shift, Trump has said that Washington...

Four members of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala have been arrested in New York on charges of kidnapping two children, federal prosecutors have said. According to a statement issued Friday by the US Attorney's Office from the Southern District of New York, the four men are...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, her office said late Friday. The two leaders discussed recent international developments, particularly in Syria and Ukraine, German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said in a statement. Merkel...

German prosecutors Friday announced war crimes charges against a female member of Daesh (ISIS) who let a five-year-old girl die of thirst in the scorching sun. While living in then Daesh-occupied Mosul, Iraq, the 27-year-old German citizen identified only as Jennifer W. and her husband...

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during the latest of weekly protests along the border with Israel Friday, Palestinian health officials said. Karam Fayyad, 26, was killed east of the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qodra told AFP....

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus Friday in an area near the Giza pyramids, killing two Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian tour guide and wounding 11 other people, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. It said the bus was traveling in the Marioutiyah area near the pyramids when the...

Sudanese police broke up several new protests held after Friday prayers, as security agents arrested a top opposition leader after calls for more demonstrations against a rise of bread prices. Angry crowds have taken to the streets in Khartoum and other cities since December 19 after a...

 A U.S. defense official on Friday denied the reports Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime forces entered Manbij. Syrian state-run SANA news agency reported earlier in the day, regime forces entered the city after the group invited forces to take control of the region and ward...

For the 40th consecutive Friday, Palestinians converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing demonstrations against Israel’s decades-long occupation.   In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged Gazans to take part in the ongoing...

Moscow and London have reached an agreement to return some staff to their respective embassies after they expelled dozens of diplomats early this year, TASS news agency reported Friday, citing the Russian envoy to the U.K. The British Foreign Office and the Russian Foreign Ministry were...

Saudi Arabia's new foreign minister voiced defiance Friday in the face of international outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder, rejecting the kingdom was in crisis and his predecessor was demoted. "The issue of Jamal Khashoggi... really saddened us, all of us," Ibrahim al-Assaf...

U.S. President Donald Trump Friday threatened to "entirely" close the southern U.S. border with Mexico if lawmakers refuse his demands to fund a wall. "We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall...

The United Nations Friday welcomed a decision by Yemen's government to pay the salaries of civil servants in the rebel-held city of Hodeida starting this month. For more than two years, the government has been unable to pay salaries and the riyal dropped sharply against the dollar,...

Turkey will have nothing left to do in the Syrian town of Manbij once "terrorist organizations" leave the area, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, hours after the Syrian army said it had entered the town. Earlier Friday, the Syrian army said it had entered Manbij for the first...