Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged the Libyan government to protect civilians who were detained after fleeing former ISIS stronghold Sirte. "Libyan authorities should ensure the safety of and urgently provide medical care for more than 120 women and children being held in a Misrata prison"...

A large crowd of South Koreans took to the streets of central Seoul on Saturday for the ninth weekend in a row to demand the immediate resignation of President Park Geun-hye, who has been impeached by parliament over a corruption scandal. About 200 young people dressed as Santa Claus gave...

Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Saturday said Greece had cleared up doubts and could expect a positive decision on debt relief, defusing a row over surprise handouts announced by Athens. "Happy to conclude that we have cleared the way for ESM to go ahead with decision-making procedures...

In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 percent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive job growth. There's one number you will almost never hear: More than 1,030 seats. That's the number of...

(Sky News)- An explosion has rocked eastern Aleppo as people were returning to their homes after the regime assumed full control of the city earlier this week. New airstrikes on a rebel-held town near Aleppo killed at least five people, state TV reported. It comes as new video...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS killed 18 Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen in a series of attacks near Tayfur military airport in the eastern countryside of Homs province, the group's Amaq new agency said Saturday. Saturday's death toll come after 27 more fighters loyal to Bashar al-Asssad...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Saturday have intensified its aerial and ground shelling on Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital, causing cut in water supply after targeting al-Fija spring, activists said. The heavy aerial bombing on an array of villages in a mountainous...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday that the military's economic activity accounted for no more than two percent of the country's output, dismissing suggestions that the military could control as much as half of the economy. Speaking at an event celebrating the expansion...

Israel scrambled Saturday to contain the fallout from the UN Security Council vote to halt settlements in Palestinian territory after lashing out at US President Barack Obama over the "shameful" resolution. The council passed the measure Friday after the United States abstained, enabling the...

Turkey's Interior Ministry says authorities have formally arrested 1,656 people in the past six months for allegedly supporting terrorist organizations or insulting officials on social media - and are investigating at least 10,000 others. In a statement Saturday, the ministry said legal...

Egypt has arrested a journalist with the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera broadcaster, police officials said Saturday, in the latest move against the network it accuses of supporting Islamist opposition. Egyptian Mahmoud Hussein was arrested at his home Friday, days after he returned to his country on...

Tunisia arrested the nephew of the suspected Berlin truck attacker and two other jihadist suspects who are "connected" to the Tunisian assailant Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday. A statement said the three suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were arrested on Friday and were...

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 Islamic State militants in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense fighting around the town of al-Bab continued. Rebels supported by Turkish troops have laid siege to the Islamic State-held town for...

A high-level commission that oversees Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will meet in Vienna on Jan. 10 to address a complaint by Teheran about the renewing of sanctions by the United States. The meeting was called Saturday by the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini,...

A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013. Bartella, once home to thousands of Assyrian Christians, emptied in August 2014 when it fell to ISIS' blitz across large parts of...

Germany was hunting for possible accomplices of the suspected Berlin truck attacker Saturday, a day after he was killed in a shoot-out with Italian police in Milan. As most of the country readied to celebrate Christmas Eve, Germany's under-pressure authorities said hundreds of investigators...

Two children were killed Friday in a collapse of refugee tents in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib due to heavy snowfall.  The deaths occured when snow piled up on roofs of 70 tents have caused collapses in a small refugee camp in Haram town in Idlib, according to an Anadolu...

Taliban insurgents attacked a checkpoint in western Afghanistan early Saturday, killing at least three police and wounding four others, officials said. Toryalai Abdyani, the police chief of Farah province, said the attackers killed the three police and escaped with weapons and ammunition...

New Zealand said Saturday the U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements should have come as no surprise to the Jewish State, after Israel retaliated by recalling its ambassador to Wellington. New Zealand co-sponsored the resolution which described the settlements in the...

A South Korean special prosecutor probing a corruption scandal engulfing impeached President Park Geun-hye summoned a friend of hers at the center of the crisis for questioning on Saturday on charges including bribery and embezzlement, an official said. The questioning of Choi Soon-sil, whom...