Qatar has recalled its ambassador to Egypt , the state news agency QNA said late on Wednesday, in a dispute over Egyptian air strikes on Islamic State targets in Libya. The diplomatic row came just two months after a thaw began in relations between the two. Egyptian jets...

(Reuters) - Brent crude oil prices fell below $59 a barrel on Thursday after U.S. government data showed crude stocks hit a record high last week. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories rose by 7.7 million to a record 425.64 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 13, said the...

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Report by Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR)- Syrian regime forces, pro-government forces and foreign militias have widely adopted the practice of execution by burning and the burning of bodies of murdered persons since the start of the events in...

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(Reuters) - Some European Union countries which withdrew their ambassadors from Syria are saying privately it is time for more communication with Damascus even though Britain and France oppose it, diplomats said. Those states have become more vocal in internal meetings about the...

(Reuters) - The images match the worst of Islamic State's atrocities: black-clad fighters and an English-speaking jihadist taunt the West before slaughtering their victims in orange jumpsuits on a Libyan beach. Their masked leader turns to the Mediterranean and points a...

  President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Egypt would strike back at any militant threats to its security as he toured the border area with Libya on Wednesday, two days after Cairo bombed Islamic State targets there. Sisi, accompanied by Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi, toured an...

(Reuters) - The United States accused Israel on Wednesday of leaking inaccurate information about nuclear negotiations with Iran, intensifying tensions over the issue before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious March visit to Washington. President Barack Obama's...

 A warning from Kurdish militants that negotiations with Turkey could be on the verge of collapse has turned parliament into the key battleground in a peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) warned from their base in...

(Reuters) - India's air force risks a major capability gap opening up with China and Pakistan without new western warplanes or if local defense contractors can't produce what the military needs in a timely manner. A 2012 agreement to buy 126 Rafale fighters from France's Dassault...

The Syrian government has committed to suspending air strikes and artillery shelling on the city of Aleppo for six weeks, the UN envoy to Syria said on Tuesday. The pledge is intended to allow a proposed UN plan to "freeze" hostilities in the country's largest city to...

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Edited to English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source in the Syrian Interim Government confirms that Government is at the brink of bankruptcy if no support was urgently provided. The source demanded Khalid Khoja, the Chief of...

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CAIRO (AP) — An Al-Jazeera English journalist who is getting to know his six-month-old son for the first time after spending more than a year in Egyptian prisons said Tuesday he was optimistic that a retrial beginning next week would exonerate him. Baher Mohammed, 31, was...

ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Government forces were seen retreating from the battlefield Wednesday as Russia-backed rebels continued their onslaught on the railroad junction of Debaltseve, the epicenter of fighting between the separatist and government troops in eastern Ukraine....