North Korea on Friday denied it cruelly treated or tortured an American student who was detained for more than year and died days after being released in a coma. The article published by the official Korean Central News Agency was Pyongyang's first reaction to Otto Warmbier's death in a U.S....

Chants against the Saudi royal family and ISIS mingled with the traditional cries of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" at Jerusalem Day rallies across Iran on Friday. The annual show of solidarity with the Palestinians, which sees hundreds of thousands take to the streets, was...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to reassure European Union nationals living in her country that their futures will be secure once Britain leaves the EU in 2019. May told reporters Friday that "no one will have to leave. We won't be seeing families split apart " She said her...

Russian naval vessels launched missile strikes on ISIS targets in Syria's Hama province, destroying command points and weapon and ammunition stores, RIA news agency cited the Russian defense ministry as saying on Friday. Read More: Turkey and Russia to deploy in Syria's Idlib:...

A powerful car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed 11 people and wounded 20, officials said. The explosion near the police chief's office in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was powerful enough that it was heard across...

The Syrian government will not allow its enemies to benefit from the creation of de-escalation zones in western Syria, the Syrian deputy foreign minister has said, ahead of international talks on the zones scheduled for early July in Kazakhstan. Russia and Iran - which back Damascus -...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for the Southern Front Essam al-Rayes said regime's major offensive on Daraa province had failed to achieve its targets despite the heavy aerial and ground bombing and hundreds of Iran-backed Shiite militants.  ...

( The New Arab )- Fighters for the Islamic State group are targeting children in Mosul to prevent civilians from fleeing the city as Iraqi forces push into the last stronghold held in Iraq by the militants there, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN children’s agency said it has...

A U.S. district court judge in Michigan has temporarily blocked the deportations of more than 100 Iraqi nationals until a decision is reached over who has jurisdiction over the matter, according to court documents filed on Thursday. Judge Mark Goldsmith issued an order staying the removal of...

An armored car screeches up to the field clinic outside Daesh’s (ISIS) Syrian stronghold Raqqa and unloads a fighter wounded in the battle to oust the militants. The young member of the Arab-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces is struggling to breathe, with a gaping bullet wound in his chest from a...

Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday promised EU citizens living in Britain that they would be allowed to stay after Brexit, but rejected calls by Brussels for the European court to oversee their rights. During a working dinner with other EU leaders at a Brussels summit, May gave "a clear...

( The Guardian )- Iraqi forces have advanced to the base of the toppled minaret of Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri, hours after it was destroyed by Islamic State militants, as the bitter eight-month battle to recapture the city reached a tipping point. The destruction of the mosque marked a...

Turkish and Russian personnel will be deployed in Syria's northern Idlib region as part of a de-escalation agreement brokered by Russia last month, Turkish broadcasters quoted President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman as saying on Thursday. Ibrahim Kalin said the de-escalation zones, agreed by...

President Donald Trump appeared to cast doubt on the assessment of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies that blame Russia for election meddling, questioning Thursday why the Obama administration didn't try to stop it. "By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday there was high degree of certainty that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead, RIA news agency reported. Moscow said last week its forces may have killed the secretive ISIS leader, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and...

The Gaza Strip's sole power station has been fired up again, the energy authority in the Palestinian enclave said Thursday, after fuel supplies from Egypt helped to ease an energy crisis. The announcement came after Egypt delivered a million litres of fuel to the station on Wednesday, three...

The leader of a protest movement in northern Morocco was "severely" beaten and verbally abused by police during his arrest, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said Thursday. Nasser Zefzafi -- leader of Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or the "Popular Movement" -- was detained on May 29 in a...

France has instructed local officials to show more humanity towards migrants, the government spokesman said on Thursday, after a human rights watchdog said it bore responsibility for the inhuman conditions migrants face in the Calais region. About 400 migrants from the Middle East and Africa...

French authorities are investigating the death of a fashion blogger reportedly hit by an exploding whipped cream canister that was withdrawn from the market in 2013, officials and the company that makes the product said Thursday. The prosecutor's office in the eastern city of Mulhouse said...

U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien described the cholera outbreak in Yemen, which is fast approaching 300,000 cases, as a "man-made catastrophe" caused by the warring sides in the country's civil war and their international backers. The number of suspected cases of the disease, which is...