Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday the United States was more isolated than ever over sanctions against Iran, even among its allies, in remarks carried live on state television. "Today, we are in conditions in which the United States is more isolated than ever over the...

Israel's army said it had launched airstrikes targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, following bloodshed in border protest clashes that saw a Palestinian teenager shot dead and an Israeli soldier injured. The Israeli aerial bombardment came as rockets and mortars were lobbed...

Air traffic resumed at the airport in the Iraqi city of Najaf after protesters withdrew, state television reported late Friday. Earlier in the day, hundreds of Iraqis stormed the airport and halted air traffic in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, extending protests following...

Eritrea's longtime president arrived Saturday in Ethiopia for his first visit in 22 years amid a dramatic diplomatic thaw between the once-bitter rivals. Thousands have turned out in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, under tight security to welcome President Isaias Afwerki, whose visit...

An Afghan official said Saturday at least 11 soldiers were killed when their checkpoint came under an attack by Insurgents in western Farah province. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the provincial governor, says four other soldiers were wounded in the gun battle in Bala Buluk...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group operating at the Iraqi border, has agreed to lay down arms to the Jordanian army and to leave Tanaf border crossing with Iraq, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The US-backed group will join the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

(SNHR)- Families whose members have fallen a victim to the crime of enforced-disappearance avidly try to find information about their relatives and children which involved in many cases paying large sums of money to mafia-like organized networks that were the by-product of this catastrophe....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Health Ministry has shut down a medical center providing free health care for hundreds of Syrian refugees, such a move deepened their suffering amid mounting pressure to push the displaced out of Lebanon, activists said Saturday. The Lebanese ministry...

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers on charges of hacking the computer networks of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, the Justice Department said. The indictment, secured by Special Counsel...

A suicide bomber killed 128 people at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack on Friday, officials said, amid growing tensions over ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return ahead of the July 25 vote. The bombing was the most deadly attack in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to take testimony from Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube unit and Twitter Inc on whether social media companies are filtering content for political reasons, the committee chairman said....

Fifty-five people were injured on Friday by the derailment of three coaches of a train south of Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said. "Fifty-five injured have been transferred to emergency care but the accident did not kill anyone", deputy health minister Ahmed Mohi al-Qassed told AFP....

Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of London and other major cities in the U.K. to protest against the visit by U.S. President Donald Trump. The protest, organized by the Stop The War Coalition, was attended by people from across the country and lasted throughout...

Yemen's rebel chief Friday praised Iran and its ally Hezbollah, singling out the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah for his "solidarity." But Abdulmalik al-Houthi, whose fighters are battling Yemen's Arab-coalition backed government, again denied accusations of receiving smuggled weapons from...

Israel's military said it had fired a missile at a drone that approached from Syria Friday, and a witness on the Syrian side of the frontier said the aircraft had been brought down. The incident occurred two days after an Israeli Patriot missile downed what the Israeli military said was a...

At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in a suspected suicide blast in an election rally in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police and local media reported. The bomber, who acted alone, rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into a vehicle minutes after the end of an election...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that the death toll from an air strike in eastern Syria overnight had climbed to 54, including Daesh (ISIS) militants and 28 civilians. The air strike hit an area a few kilometers from the border with Iraq. Most of the civilians were...

The death toll from torrential rains and floods in western Japan has topped 200, the Japan Times reported on Friday.  According to the newspaper, 204 people have been confirmed dead, with dozens still missing. Search and rescue operations with more than 70,000 rescuers...

Chancellor Angela Merkel made no new pledge on Thursday to increase defense spending of Germany, despite a stark warning by the U.S. President Donald Trump.  Speaking to reporters on the second and final day of the NATO summit in Brussels, Merkel stuck to her government’s earlier...

Iraqi police fired into the air to disperse protesters demanding jobs and better public services at one of three demonstrations outside major oil fields in the southern oil hub of Basra Thursday, police sources said. Two protesters were wounded, police and hospital sources said without...