Police in Turkey on Thursday detained 76 people in connection with attacks on homes and businesses believed to be owned by Syrians after a Turkish teenager was killed in a fight with a group of refugees from Syria. A hundreds-strong mob took to the streets of the capital Ankara’s...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken in a weeklong sweep across Afghanistan just weeks before the end of the American military mission there. Seizing Ghazni cuts off a crucial highway...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has urged Syria's president to use his power to free Austin Tice, a US journalist abducted nine years ago, on his 40th birthday Wednesday. "I am personally committed to bringing home all Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. We believe...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The death toll in fires ravaging mountain forests and villages in Algeria’s Berber region climbed Wednesday to 65 people, including 28 soldiers, as the president declared a three-day mourning period this week to honor the lives lost. The Civil Protection...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and the Netherlands have suspended any deportations of migrants to Afghanistan due to the tense security situation as Taliban insurgents make sweeping gains in the Central Asian country. Almost 30,000 Afghans in Germany, many of them failed asylum-seekers, are currently...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of women have described shocking sexual assaults by Ethiopian soldiers and allied forces in the country’s Tigray conflict, says an Amnesty International report published Wednesday, and its researcher calls it striking how the perpetrators appeared to act without fear...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban seized three more provincial capitals in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, putting nine of the nation's 34 in the insurgents' hands amid the U.S. withdrawal from the country. The fall of the capitals of Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces to the...

PSG have confirmed the signing of free agent Lionel Messi. The Argentinian superstar, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time has signed a two year deal with the Parisians.  Messi 34, earlier in the week waved goodbye to Barcelona in an emotional press conference....

The ongoing escalation of violence in Syria, especially in the north, has killed and injured at least 45 children since the beginning of July, according to a statement issued by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The statement explained that after “ten years of conflict in Syria,...

Lionel Messi finalized agreement on his Paris Saint-Germain contract and was flying to France on Tuesday to complete the move that confirms the end of a career-long association with Barcelona. The 34-year-old Argentina star has agreed a two-year deal with the option for a further season, a...

 Syria's Bashar al-Assad issued a decree on Tuesday forming a new government under Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, the Syrian Presidency said on Twitter.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Peering out into the darkened audience of a Dubai bar, comedian Imah Dumagay leaned into the microphone and addressed the mistaken perception that many people have across the Middle East when they see a Filipina at a nightclub. “I am from the Philippines...

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.” “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get...

BAGHDAD: Iraq is to host a regional summit late this month, with French President Emmanuel Macron also attending, the Iraqi premier's office said Monday. Mustafa al-Kadhemi's office has said Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Arabia's King Salman have been invited, although an exact...

The Israeli army on Monday demolished commercial and agricultural structures and detained eight Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces razed six Palestinian facilities in the town of Ya'bad, southeast of Jenin, the town’s mayor, Samer Abu Bakr, told Anadolu Agency. He...

The literary world on Monday commemorated the 13th anniversary of the death of Palestinian poet and resistance icon Mahmoud Darwish, who informed the international community about the struggle of his people through his works. "Mahmoud Darwish is important for Palestinian people’s cultural...

 (Xinhua) -- Fascinated by their quick moves and sound rhythm, 12-year-old Hend Zaza, Syria's table tennis player and the youngest athlete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, yearns to learn from her Chinese counterparts. As the youngest table tennis player at Tokyo Olympics, Zaza caught...

Hurling a javelin, leaping over hurdles and sprinting beyond rows of tents to win gold, displaced children in the northwest of war-torn Syria have staged their very own Olympics. As the Tokyo Olympics wrapped up at the weekend, 120 boys from 12 different camps excitedly gathered late on...

Libyan authorities on Sunday exhumed 10 bodies from a mass grave in Tarhuna city, south of the capital Tripoli. The mass grave was discovered on Saturday in a large agricultural area known as Mashrou' Alrabet in the city, Lutfi Tawfiq, director of the General Authority for Research and...

A Saudi criminal court on Sunday sentenced former Hamas representative Mohammed Al-Khudari to 15 years in prison on charges of supporting the Palestinian group, according to his brother. Abdel-Majed Al-Khudari told Anadolu Agency that the court reduced his brother’s sentence by half. His...