Gaza’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry announced Thursday that its security forces had surrounded a group of men suspected of involvement in a recent assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah. In a brief statement, ministry spokesman Iyad al-Buzm said security...

Israeli police at dawn Thursday entered a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem where they detained an injured 14-year-old Palestinian child, according to an Israeli police statement. “During the night, a 14-year-old boy attempted to throw a Molotov cocktail in East Jerusalem,” the...

Slovak President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass protests and the resignation of veteran leader Robert Fico. In Slovakia's biggest protests in three...

Dutch voters have narrowly rejected a law that would give spy agencies the power to carry out mass tapping of Internet traffic delivering a setback to Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government. Dubbed the "trawling law" by opponents, the legislation would allow spy agencies to install wire...

Swiss federal prosecutors staged raids after state arms group RUAG flagged potential violations of the country's war materiel act, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said Thursday. It was reacting to a report by the Handelszeitung newspaper that RUAG was searched in connection...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge European Union leaders to unite and condemn Russia as leaders of the bloc's 28 nations meet in Brussels. May is seeking a strong statement against President Vladimir Putin after the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter...

Syrian rebels freed 13 soldiers in return for the release of five rebels on Thursday, the first step of a deal over Harasta town in Eastern Ghouta, a Hezbollah War Media Center. Around 1,500 Ahrar al-Sham fighters and 6,000 family members will evacuate the town on Thursday, said the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activist Abdullah Hariri, another victim of the regime's Military Intelligence Division as the leaked wanted list shows. The world may remember the photo of Hariri, which was among 55,000 mass torture photos for 11,000 victims who were tortured to death in the Assad...

Large numbers of Syrian civilians were leaving the rebel-held eastern Ghouta town of Douma early on Thursday, a war monitor said, and a Russian video feed showed groups bearing children and luggage crossing into government territory. Some 1,500 people left early on Thursday and 2,000 late...

The tempest over U.S. President Donald Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin quickly grew Wednesday into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and speculation over who might be the next person Trump forces out of the West Wing. The...

The Iraqi army and pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi militia have reinforced their forces around the Turkmen-majority Tuz Khurmato city in northern Iraq, according to a military officer on Wednesday. The move came a day after six people were killed and 15 others injured at a fake...

Facebook has a responsibility to protect the data of its users and it is taking action to prevent leaks in the future, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. Zuckerberg broke his silence following disclosure of a massive data leak with a post on the social media site in...

To keep civilians safe, the Turkish army has been busy destroying mines and roadside bombs planted by YPG/PKK terrorists in the town of Afrin, Syria after its liberation last Sunday. Over the last three days, 46 explosives were safely detonated, according to Anadolu Agency...

Hamas on Wednesday named a fugitive suspect in a bomb attack on Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah, two days after the Islamist movement itself was accused of the Gaza attack. Hamdallah was unhurt by the roadside blast that struck his convoy on March 13, in what Palestinian...

Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned up to 3,000 prisoners, including most female inmates, in his first act of clemency, a government notice showed on Wednesday. The last time that prisoners were released en masse was in May 2016 by former president Robert Mugabe...

Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a "message" to others. The first public acknowledgement by Israel that its F-16 and F-15 warplanes...

Some 1,500 insurgents and 6,000 of their family members will start leaving the town of Harasta in Syria's eastern Ghouta Thursday under an evacuation deal, a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah said. It added that they would be transported to rebel-held Idlib...

A lightning assault by Daesh (ISIS) that put the militants in control of a southern part of the Syrian capital killed 62 regime fighters, a monitor said Wednesday in a new toll. Daesh launched the surprise attack on Monday night to seize the Qadam neighborhood of Damascus. The...

 China is now a major producer of innovative technologies, nosing ahead of Japan to become the second biggest source of international patent applications, the United Nations said on Wednesday. China's fast growth in intellectual property has led to accusations by U.S. President...

Iran played a significant role in defeating Daesh (ISIS) in the region, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV. Khamenei said the United States is not capable of creating stability in the region and pointed to the U.S. military...