Israeli forces on Tuesday detained three Palestinians who sneaked into Israel through border with the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli military. In a statement, the army said the three Gazans were in possession of knives and bombs when they were arrested. No further details...

 Iraq's armed forces have instructions to prevent "foreign fighters" from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told his Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey's intelligence...

The Islamist gunman who killed four people in southern France last week had been summoned by anti-terror police for questioning shortly before his shooting rampage, a police source told AFP Tuesday. Radouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old Moroccan-born French national, had been on a list of...

Unions at South Korea's two-largest automakers, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, say plans to revise a free trade deal with the United States involve concessions that will prevent local automakers from entering the fast-growing U.S. pick-up truck market. Hyundai's labor union said Tuesday that...

Polls opened in Egypt on Tuesday for the second day of a presidential election incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win easily against a little-known rival. Few voters could be seen at one polling station which opened at 9:00 am in Cairo. Authorities have been urging...

Twitter says it will ban or restrict advertisements related to crypto-currencies in an attempt to crack down on fraud. The move follows similar steps by Facebook and Google earlier this year. Twitter said the new rules will roll out starting Tuesday and will apply to all advertisers in...

Six former Israeli spymasters accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday of jeopardizing the country's future as it prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding next month. The surviving ex-Mossad intelligence agency chiefs voiced their opinion of the fourth-term,...

 Deteriorating weather forced a Volvo Ocean Race yacht to abandon its search for a British crew member washed overboard in the hostile Southern Ocean Tuesday, with organizers admitting hopes of finding the man alive were fading. Briton John Fisher went missing from the yacht...

Two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two civilian aircraft from the United Arab Emirates while they were in Bahraini airspace on Monday, UAE state news agency WAM quoted its civil aviation authority as saying. WAM said the General Civil Aviation Authority had condemned the...

The largest convoy yet of armed fighters and civilians left a devastated pocket of Eastern Ghouta early on Tuesday, further emptying the onetime Syrian rebel bastion. regime troops, backed by Russia and loyalist militia, launched a ferocious assault more than a month ago to retake the...

Forty one children were killed in the Kemerovo shopping mall fire in Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday, citing a list of victims made available to relatives. A total of 64 people had been killed, according to the list, Interfax said.

Syrian migrants trying to cross from Turkey to Greece are being beaten by Turkish coastguards, it was claimed yesterday. A Syrian couple with the first names Aladdin and Bushra filmed the moment their dinghy was stopped at night. Children and women could be heard screaming as they...

The U.S. on Monday "strongly" condemned a Houthi barrage rocket attack on Saudi Arabia that killed one person and injured two others. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the attack "dangerous" while expressing condolences to the families of those killed and injured....

At least 278 undocumented migrants have been held in northwestern Turkey, a security source said Monday. The migrants were nabbed during a gendarmerie patrol in Orhaniye, Bosnakoy, Ipsala and Meric districts of Edirne province, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to...

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has warned Israel against carrying out any acts of aggression against the Palestinian people, saying the response to such acts would be “immediate”.   “The [Palestinian] resistance is ready to confront any Zionist aggression...

A fourth convoy of vehicles carrying civilians and opposition fighters from Eastern Ghouta arrived in the Hama province in west-central Syria on Monday. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents in Eastern Ghouta, the 98 buses and vehicles making up the convoy reached Hama, carrying...

Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday Russia had "spectacularly failed" in efforts to divide Britain's allies following a nerve agent attack this month on a former Russian spy in an English city. "If the Kremlin's goal is to divide and intimidate the Western alliance, then their...

The United Arab Emirates' civil aviation authority said two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two Emirati civilian aircraft while they were in Bahrain's airspace Monday, the UAE's state news agency WAM reported. The General Civil Aviation Authority condemned the "provocative...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday it had invited the chief executives of Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc to testify at an April 10 hearing on data privacy. Senator Charles Grassley, the committee's chairman, said he invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg "to...

French police are investigating whether the death of an elderly Jewish woman stabbed and burnt to death in her Paris apartment last week was an anti-Semitic murder, a judicial source said Monday. Mirelle Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was found dead Friday inside the...