France's minister for European affairs said international law obliged Italy to let the stranded migrant rescue vessel Lifeline dock in an Italian port and that Rome was in no position to tell Paris how to behave. With more than 230 migrants on board, the MV Lifeline is stuck in...

Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and also recovered 10 bodies on Sunday, officials and a witness at a naval base said. The operations brings the number, since last week, of mainly African migrants trying to head to Italy but...

( SNHR )- Around 8,500 individuals were forced to leave their homes, villages, and cities at the end of April 2018, as waves of the forcibly displaced started fleeing the towns of southern Damascus (Babbila, Yalda, Beit Sahm, and al Yarmouk Camp) heading for north Syria in accordance with...

Iranian fans have spent several overnight hours surrounding the hotel where Portugal's national team is based, making loud noises in an attempt to disrupt their opponents' sleep before a decisive World Cup match later Monday. Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was filmed by Portuguese TV RTP...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser said in an interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview published in Al-Quds newspaper,...

Ten people with links to the radical far-right have been arrested by anti-terrorist police in France over an alleged plot to attack Muslims, judical sources said Sunday. The arrests were made Saturday in operations across France but mainly on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, the...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday evening declared victory in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections. “Our nation gave me the duty of the presidency and executive power,” Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul, citing unofficial results, which would make him Turkey's first...

Saudi Arabia’s air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi militia over Riyadh on Sunday, state-run al-Ikhbariya television said on Sunday. The Houthis' al-Masira television said later that rockets were aimed at Saudi defense ministry and other targets...

A Syrian mother rejoined her two children in Turkey's southeastern Sanliurfa province after a-three-year search with help from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). Nur Naser was living with her husband and two children in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, which was besieged by Bashar...

Turkey's main opposition attacked the state-run media on Sunday for its coverage of parliamentary and presidential elections, saying it was attempting to manipulate the public's perception of the polls. Preliminary results from state-run news agency Anadolu showed President Tayyip...

Jordan said Sunday it would be unable to host a new wave of Syrian refugees, as troops loyal to Damascus prepare an offensive for the war-torn country's rebel-held south. "The large number of Syrians we're hosting in terms of financial resources and infrastructure does not allow for the...

(Reuters) - Voting officially ended on Sunday in Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections, a vote that poses the biggest electoral challenge to Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and a half ago. Polls across the country...

(Zaman Al Wals)- Syrian and Russian fighters jets pounded opposition areas in southern Syrian a head of major offensive to retake the provinces of Daraa, Quneitra and parts of Sweida. Local activists and rebel commanders expect a deadliest assault similar to the offensive on the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanon have called on the UN refugee agency to protect them from the abuses of Lebanese security that uses the identity of UNHCR employees to delude refugees in its latest arrest campaign. Number of Syrian refugees told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday...

Divisions in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc have weakened public support for her "grand coalition" and pushed the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to its highest ratings, a poll published Sunday showed. The poll conducted by Emnid for the Bild am...

French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity has hit a new low, a poll showed on Sunday, following recent controversies over spending at his residences and cutting remarks he made on welfare benefits. Despite upbeat business sentiment and rising foreign investments, the number of...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Sunday that failure to save the nuclear deal after the exit of the United States would be "very dangerous" for Tehran. The United States announced in May that it was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions that...

The Syrian army will regain control of the country's north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, Bashar Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel NTV Sunday. Assad's comments come after Damascus said it rejected the presence of Turkish and U.S. forces around the...

 A Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces two days ago during clashes on the Gaza border died of his wounds early Sunday, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory said. "Osama Khalil Abu Khater, 29-years-old, died of wounds to his stomach after being shot by the Israeli enemy...

Turks began voting Sunday for a new president and parliament in elections that pose the biggest ballot box challenge to Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and a half ago. The elections will also usher in a powerful new...