An Iraqi lawmaker who has campaigned prominently for fellow Yazidi women enslaved by ISIS group said Tuesday that new US travel restrictions may prevent her from accepting a human rights award. Vian Dakhil had been due to travel to Washington to receive the Lantos Human Rights Prize next...

The armed Houthi movement attacked a Saudi warship off the western coast of Yemen on Monday, causing an explosion that killed two crew members and injured three others, Saudi state news agency SPA reported. Separately, the Houthis said they launched a ballistic missile at a Saudi-led...

(Al-Jazeera)- The fresh clashes in Syria's Idlib region between a dozen important Islamist and extremist rebel movements are battles for turf and authority on the ground - but they also mirror northern Syria's ever-changing complexities, as local, regional and international actors change...

U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another dramatic twist in the unusually...

(BBC)- Israel's prime minister has accused Iran of carrying out a missile test in "flagrant violation" of a UN security council resolution. Benjamin Netanyahu said he would discuss renewing sanctions when he met US President Donald Trump in February. Iran has carried out several such...

An embattled Donald Trump fired his government's chief lawyer for refusing to defend his controversial immigration orders Monday, deepening a political crisis engulfing his young presidency. In a caustic statement, Trump's White House said acting attorney general Sally Yates had "betrayed"...

(Middle East Monitor)- While the media attention has been focused on the death of one US serviceman who was killed during a raid in Yemen, one of the most tragic casualties of the assault ordered by President Donald Trump was an eight-year-old girl. The raid took place over the weekend, as...

The UN Security Council will hold urgent talks Tuesday on Iran's test-firing of a medium-range missile, diplomats said. The United States requested the emergency consultations after the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations called for council action. "In light of Iran's January 29...

A French-Canadian university student was the sole suspect in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque and was charged with the premeditated murder of six people, Canadian authorities said on Monday, in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called "a terrorist attack." Court documents identified the...

Several congressional Republicans have spoken out against President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee restrictions, reflecting unease within the president's party about the direction he is taking in his first weeks in office. But it was not immediately clear if such internal opposition...

(New York Post)- A Manhattan federal jury on Monday convicted an ISIS recruiter who helped send a Baruch College student to Syria — and ultimately his death fighting for the terror group. Ahmed Mohammed el Gam­mal was pronounced guilty on all four counts of providing and conspiring to...

Pakistani police confined the accused architect of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to house arrest on Tuesday, manning barricades outside his home in the city of Lahore as supporters vowed protests. The detention of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed follows action by the U.S. administration of President...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s embassy in Berlin has issued passports for non Syrians who paid a €500 bribe, senior opposition figure said. Bassam al-Abdullah, the Ambassador of Syrian National Coalition to Germany has denied issuing any passport to anyone by the Embassy, mentioning...

President Donald Trump will amend his recent National Security Council reorganization to add the CIA to the group, the White House said on Monday. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the CIA had not been part of the national security forum since 2005, but he said Trump was making the...

The United Nations refugee agency voiced alarm on Monday at U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to suspend entry of refugees, saying that this week alone 800 people set to make America their new home had been barred, causing anxiety and heartbreak. An estimated 20,000 refugees in...

(Daily Mail)- A Syrian boy with cancer may not be able to come to the United States for much-needed treatment following Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban. Seven-year-old Mohammad's hopes of traveling to America to receive cancer treatment are put on hold after Syrians were...

Syria warned Monday of safe zones for civilians that U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed interest in creating, saying it would have to come in coordination with the Syrian government, otherwise it would be unsafe and violate the Arab nation's sovereignty. The announcement was made in...

The administration of President Donald Trump loosened a restriction on legal residents holding green cards returning to the United States from overseas travel after a weekend of confusion, protests and worldwide outcry over a sweeping immigration order. The executive order signed by Trump on...

The Syrian government has denied rumors that President Bashar al-Assad is suffering from ill health, saying he was "carrying out his duties quite normally". Speculation swirled in recent days on social media and some Arab news websites saying Assad, 51, was in critical condition, citing...

Six long-range Russian bombers launched an air strike against ISIS positions in Syria's Deir al-Zor province on Monday, destroying two command points and several arms storehouses, the Interfax news agency reported, citing Russia's Defense Ministry....