A Turkish and Algerian-sponsored resolution blaming Israel for the recent deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and urging the international community to consider protections for Palestinian civilians overwhelmingly passed in the UN General Assembly on Wednesday The resolution,...

UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov has warned that ongoing tension along the Gaza border could escalate into a "destructive" military conflict. "We all have a common interest to avoid another war in Gaza because another war in Gaza will be more destructive than the one in 2014 and...

Kosovo prosecutors have charged an ethnic Albanian with joining extremist terror groups in Syria. A statement Wednesday said that the man, a Kosovo citizen identified only as R.D., had gone to Turkey last month and tried to cross into Syria to join military organizations there....

 An Arab-led military coalition conducted "intense" strikes near Yemen's main port of Hudaida after the Arab alliance launched an attack on the western city on Wednesday, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television quoted witnesses as saying. It reported "intense and concentrated" coalition...

Senior officials from Iran, Russia and Turkey will meet in Geneva on June 18-19 for consultations with the United Nations about setting up a constitutional committee for Syria, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said in a statement Wednesday. He will invite other countries for relevant...

Iraqi Shiite preacher Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in last month's parliamentary elections, has announced an alliance with an Iran-backed coalition ahead of marathon negotiations to form a new government. The move, announced by al-Sadr and Hadi...

The Saudi-led coalition forces on Wednesday launched a major military operation to recapture Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah from Shia Houthi rebels. “The operation to recapture Al-Hudaydah city and port has begun,” Yemeni military spokesman Abdullah al-Shuabi told Anadolu Agency....

The Syrian army has reinforced its anti-aircraft defenses near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a commander in the regional alliance that backs President Bashar Assad said Tuesday. Additional defenses are set to be deployed in the coming days, the commander told Reuters....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led coalition airstrike on a village in northeast Syria held by Islamic State militants killed at least 19 civilians, mostly family members, monitoring and local activists said Tuesday.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes...

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced on Tuesday that he has forged an alliance with the Fatah Coalition to form the biggest group in Iraq's parliament. In a joint news briefing with his new ally, Sadr also affirmed the continuation of his alliance with Iyad Allawi's al-Wataniye...

Pentagon officials were surprised Tuesday after President Donald Trump vowed at his summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Un to cancel "provocative" joint military drills with South Korea. Following the unprecedented meeting in Singapore, Trump stunned observers when he said...

Real Madrid on Tuesday announced that Spanish national team manager Julen Lopetegui will be the team’s new head coach. In a statement posted on the team's official website, the club said Lopetegui will join the team after the World Cup 2018 in Russia. "Real Madrid C. F. announce...

Daesh (ISIS) may have lost most of its territory in Syria but recent deadly attacks against pro-regime fighters are a foretaste of more to come, analysts say. Despite pro-government forces ousting Daesh from urban centers in eastern Syria last year, surprise raids there in past weeks have killed...

Hundreds of Iraqis on Tuesday marked the anniversary of a Daesh massacre on Camp Speicher in Tikrit in 2014.  In June 2014, Daesh terrorists -- after overrunning much of northern and western of Iraq -- reportedly killed more than 2,000 cadets and personnel at Saladin’s Speicher...

The first heavy monsoon rain of this year swept through Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, killing a child and damaging more than 1,000 shelters, a UN official said on Tuesday. "Torrential rains and winds up to 70 kilometers per hour caused at least 89 reported incidents, including...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. military would suspend some exercises that North Korea has regarded as a threat to its security, following his summit with Kim Jong Un. “We will be stopping the war games,” Trump said Tuesday during a news conference after four hours of meetings in...

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has handed over 853 Daesh suspects to Iraqi authorities in the past eight months, a KRG official said Monday. Dindar Zebari, the KRG coordinator for international advocacy, said at a news conference in Erbil that the suspects were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian Military Police have set up new checkpoints in the northern countryside of Homs city as hundreds of displaced people plan to return back home from northern Syria. More than 35000 rebel fighters and their families were evacuated from the towns of al-Rastan...

Turkish armed forces will remain in northern Iraq until the terrorists are cleared from the region, Turkey’s defense minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at Anadolu Agency’s Editor’s Desk in the capital Ankara, Nurettin Canikli said: “Turkish armed forces will remain in [northern Iraq]...

Hundreds of Jewish settlers clashed on Tuesday with Israeli police ahead of the evacuation of an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank. Angry settlers barricaded themselves inside a number of buildings to be demolished at the Netiv Ha’avot outpost in Gush Etzion near Hebron in the...