A Saudi Arabian Airlines Airbus A330 jet made an emergency landing in the western Red Sea city of Jeddah, injuring 53 people, aviation officials said on Tuesday. The Saudia aircraft was travelling from the Muslim holy city of Medina to Dhaka with 151 people on board, but had to be...

  Iran's environment chief said Tuesday that a government committee had concluded there was no evidence against wildlife activists rounded up on spying charges in recent months. Isa Kalantari, head of the government's department of environment, told state news agency IRNA that...

Two more people have died from Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said Tuesday, as aid agencies battled to persuade skeptical residents about the severity of an outbreak that has killed 27 since April. One of the deaths occurred in Mbandaka, according to a daily healthy...

A Syrian graffiti artist is showing his solidarity with the people of the blockaded Gaza Strip by spray-painting pro-Gaza slogans and images on the ruins of opposition-held Idlib.  Aziz al-Asmar, 35, from Idlib’s Binnish district, spray-paints his art on structures that have been...

Forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar engaged in fierce clashes around the city of Derna Tuesday, as two soldiers were killed in a car bomb and another was abducted from a checkpoint elsewhere in the east. The fighting south-west of Derna was the most intense since Haftar's...

More than two dozen pro-regime forces based in Syria's desert died in a surprise Daesh (ISIS) attack Tuesday, a day after the militants' ouster from the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said. "At least 26 regime soldiers and allied forces were killed in an IS [Daesh] attack at dawn...

The United States Tuesday imposed sanctions on five Iranians it said were linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. In a statement on its website, the U.S. Treasury named the individuals as Mehdi Azarpisheh, Mohammad Jafari, Mahmud Kazemabad, Javad Shir Amin, and Sayyed Mohammad...

US Treasury issues fresh Iran-related sanctions: statement

Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian protesters near the Gaza-Israel security fence last week, Pierre Krahenbuhl, head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said Tuesday. Speaking at a press conference in Gaza City, Krahenbuhl described the...

People in northeastern Ethiopia’s Afar region are currently facing the hottest season in years due to severe drought-like conditions, but still Muslims like Mohammed Utban are continuing to fast in the holy month of Ramadan. Utban, who lives in a small tent-like house with his family in...

At least two army personnel loyal to military commander Khalifa Haftar, who is backed by Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament, were killed Tuesday in a car-bomb attack in eastern Libya. Libya’s Channel 218 television station reported that the car bomb blew up near Gate 60 outside the town of...

The Israeli authorities on Tuesday refused a request by the EU to investigate the alleged beating and arrest of an Arab-Israeli activist during a pro-Gaza demonstration in Haifa last weekend. Describing his country as “the only democracy in the Middle East”, Public Security Minister...

Cristiano Ronaldo spoke to the press at Real Madrid’s Open Media Day ahead of the Champions League final in Kiev, and while he said winning a fifth Champions League title would be “amazing,” he warned against complacency when facing Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool on Saturday, where victory would put...

The U.N. Tuesday said it was almost impossible to imagine people returning to Syria's ruined Yarmouk Palestinian camp, a day after the regime recaptured it from militants. Syrian troops seized control of Yarmouk and other neighborhoods in the south of the capital Damascus Monday after a...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remained in hospital for a third day Tuesday with pneumonia, with a hospital spokeswoman saying there was as yet no timeframe for his discharge. "He is doing fine but still needs to take care," the spokeswoman for the Istishari Arab Hospital near...

Egypt's army has drastically stepped up its demolitions of homes, businesses and farms in the Sinai since launching a widespread campaign against militants in February, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The watchdog said it documented at least 3,000 homes and commercial properties...

Syrian state TV says the regime military and police forces are celebrating recapturing the last neighborhoods in Damascus that were held by the rebels and Daesh (ISIS). Al-Ikhbariya TV broadcast footage of a ceremonial police motorcade entering the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood with...

Today, any discussion of the role of transnational Islamist actors in the Syrian conflict invariably focuses on Salafi-jihadi organizations, such as the self-proclaimed Islamic State and al-Qaeda. In 2012–2013, however, the conflict was primarily shaped by other transnational networks that were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels said the provocations of regime army have increased in the coastal region after Turkish army set up its 12 observation points in areas overlook on the Bashar al-Assad’s stronghold in Latakia province, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels said regime...

An Iraqi court Tuesday sentenced a Belgian militant, who threatened Europe in propaganda videos, to death by hanging for Deash (ISIS) membership, an AFP journalist reported. Tarik Jadaoun - known by his nom de guerre Abu Hamza al-Beljiki - earlier pleaded not guilty to a range of...