A Sudanese teenager sentenced to death for killing her husband after he allegedly raped her has filed an appeal, her lawyer said Thursday. Noura Hussein had been found guilty of the "intentional murder" of a man she said raped her after being forced to marry him at the age of 16 by her...

Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media reported Thursday. "Keep an eye on the admissions to seminaries, keep your eyes open," the pope was quoted as saying by newspaper...

 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday a committee will investigate allegations of fraud in the May 12 national elections, according to a statement from his office. The committee will be led by the head of the financial control bureau, the statement said.

A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group has detained a high-profile French Daesh (ISIS) fighter in northern Syria who has been linked to terror attacks in Paris and Nice in 2015 and 2016, the group announced Thursday. The Syrian Democratic Forces said they captured Adrien Lionel Kiyali...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- AA)- Syrian regime forces backed by Shiite militias area readying to launch major offensive against rebels in southern Daraa province. Opposition sources told Anadolu Agency that regime forces hoped to assert control over the Nassib border crossing with Jordan,...

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday called off a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site. Trump announced his abrupt withdrawal from what would have...

China criticized the U.S. on Thursday after Pentagon announced it withdrew its invitiation to Beijing to participate in the upcoming Pacific military drill on the pretext of the country's continued militarization of the South China Sea.  Ministry of National Defense spokesman Ren...

Following Washington's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the Islamic republic's supreme leader has laid out his country's conditions for upholding its side of the landmark accord with world powers. The following excerpts from an address by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Iranian...

 Some 250 asylum-seekers have blocked a busy northern Greek highway, in a second day of protests against overcrowding and poor conditions in the nearby camp they are housed in. The peaceful protest by mostly Kurdish migrants at Diavata, on Thessaloniki's western outskirts, lasted...

The Kremlin Thursday said Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with her ex-spy father in Britain in March, could have been pressured into making a video saying she was not ready to return to Russia. On Wednesday Yulia Skripal said she one day hoped to return to her home country but first...

The Kremlin Thursday denied an allegation from Ukraine that Russia was planning a cyber-attack on Ukrainian state bodies and private companies ahead of the Champions League soccer final in Kiev Saturday. The U.S. government said late on Wednesday that it would seek to wrestle hundreds...

Russian state telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor will check by December whether Facebook and possibly Whatsapp are complying with Russian laws, TASS news agency reported on Thursday, citing the head of the watchdog. Russia has said it would block access to Facebook unless the...

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have deep-rooted relations and similar approaches on key regional issues, a panel heard Wednesday. "Turkey-Saudi Arabia Media Meeting", organized by the Directorate General of Press and Information (BYEGM), was held in capital Ankara. The speakers focused...

Two Turkish village guards were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded on Thursday as their vehicle was travelling in an area near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran, security sources said. The Turkish military launched an air-backed operation in the southeastern...

Cybersecurity firms on Wednesday warned that hackers have infiltrated some 500,000 routers and other devices worldwide in a campaign apparently targeting Ukraine. Both the government of Ukraine and the Department of Homeland Security in the United States have pointed to Russia as the...

At least eight Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing north of the capital, according to a security source. The suicide bombers targeted a park in the al-Shuala area north of Baghdad, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking...

A senior North Korean official warned Thursday that the United States must decide whether it wants dialogue or a nuclear war.  Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui's ultimatum was carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency and came as both Pyongyang and Washington officials...

Having failed to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear accord, French President Emmanuel Macron is reaching out to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Macron heads to St. Petersburg on Thursday amid deep differences with Putin over Syria, Ukraine and alleged...

Saudi air defenses Thursday intercepted a ballistic missile over the southern city of Jizan after it was fired from rebel-held territory in neighboring Yemen, an Arab-led military coalition said. Debris from the missile landed in residential areas of Jizan without causing casualties,...

Israel's defense minister said on Thursday he plans to seek approval next week for the construction of some 2,500 new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Avigdor Lieberman, writing on Twitter, said a regional planning board would be asked to designate 1,400 of the...