Israeli forces have arrested a brother and an uncle of a Palestinian accused of killing two soldiers in a West Bank car ramming late on Friday, the army said. The alleged driver of the vehicle -- identified as Alaa Kabha, born in 1991 -- was already in custody having been detained...

KABUL (AFP)- A car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday killed at least two civilians, as the militants maintain pressure on the capital amid growing calls for peace talks. Several others were wounded in the morning rush-hour suicide blast in an industrial area of...

 A boat that sank off a Greek island while smuggling migrants or refugees left at least 14 people dead Saturday, while a search and rescue operation was ongoing to locate more people believed missing. The wooden boat was believed to have been carrying around 21 people when it sank...

Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns to escape battles at opposite ends of Syria on Saturday, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days. Air strikes pounded a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus, rescuers and a war monitor...

Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, a monitor said, almost a month into a blistering Russia-backed regime assault on the Syrian rebel enclave outside Damascus. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not say who...

Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to state media. "In case some European countries are following steps to put non-nuclear sanctions against Iran...

Russian foreign ministry says 23 British diplomats should leave Russia within a week

The European Commission called for industry views Friday on a list of U.S. products it will subject to import tariffs, the first step toward measures to counter planned U.S. taxes on European steel and aluminum. The European Union wants to be exempted from U.S. duties of 25 percent on steel and...

The British pound recovered Friday from weakness prompted by a Russian decision to expel British diplomats, as the world rallied in support for London in a crisis sparked by the poisoning of a double agent, analysts said. World stocks rose slightly at the end of a volatile week as fears...

More than 150,000 civilians have fled the city of Afrin in northern Syria since Wednesday evening to escape a Turkish-led military offensive against a Kurdish militia, a war monitor said. "There was fierce fighting throughout the night on the northern outskirts of the city as the...

The Saudi government is expected to take a 35-percent stake in construction giant Saudi Binladin Group as part of a financial settlement with state authorities, sources told Reuters Thursday. The figure – previously unknown – was confirmed by four sources familiar with the matter. It...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump is negotiating with a number of countries over the possibility of providing exemptions to new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the White House said Friday. "He's ... working with a number of individual countries and negotiating on...

 Search Here for your name, perhaps your are on the Syrian regime's wanted list  Zaman Al Wasl has launched a huge search engine including data and names of 1,500,000 people wanted for the Syrian regime, including warrants of arrest,...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- Russia's ambassador to London said he had received a diplomatic note informing him that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are in a critical condition, but that Britain was "hiding" further details, RIA news agency reported Friday. Alexander Yakovenko told the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- White House Chief of Staff John Kelly assured aides to President Donald Trump Friday that no immediate personnel changes are coming as he sought to tamp down a wave of uncertainty generated by persistent evidence Trump wants more turnover. Days after firing U.S....

ISTANBUL (Reuters)- A Turkish penal court ordered the release of a journalist jailed over alleged ties to a failed coup, the private broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Friday. Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, is to be released under judicial control and...

The rebel groups left in Syria's Eastern Ghouta said Friday they would be willing to negotiate with regime backer Russia on a ceasefire for their one-time stronghold outside Damascus. In a joint statement, factions Jaish al-Islam, Failaq al-Rahman, and Ahrar al-Sham said the United...

A Turkish air strike hit the main hospital in Syria's Afrin town Friday night, killing nine people, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Turkey's military has denied hitting civilians in its offensive on the Afrin region, which it launched in...

A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel's Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of...

BEIRUT (Reuters)- The Syrian regime army and allied forces have recaptured 70 percent of the territory that had been under insurgent control in the enclave of Eastern Ghouta, it said Friday. The regime military statement said troops had seized swathes of farmland, several villages and...