The Biden administration says it's ready to join talks with Iran and world powers to discuss a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, in a sharp repudiation of former President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign” that sought to isolate the Islamic Republic. The administration also took...

The scale of violence in South Sudan is “a lot worse” than during the country’s five-year civil war, a United Nations commission announced Friday, accusing senior officials of supporting armed groups that at times have included tens of thousands of fighters. The new report by the...

The prosecutor investigating last year’s massive blast in Beirut was formally notified Friday that he would no longer lead an enquiry into last year's deadly port explosion, state-run Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Thursday’s decision by the country's highest court to remove...

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen said Friday it was “extremely concerned” by the recent escalation of violence between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in in the oil-rich Marib province. “The ICRC urges all parties to the conflict to take every...

The United States says it has decided to “de-link” its suspension of millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia from that country’s dispute with Egypt over a massive hydroelectric dam project. But the State Department early Friday said that does not mean all the roughly $272 million in...

In an address to the nation, Tebboune said he will also carry out a government reshuffle and issued a pardon for dozens of jailed activists of the "Hirak" protest movement. The government has struggled to stem renewed Hirak protests. "I have decided to dissolved the National Popular...

The State Department said the U.S. would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement. The U.S. has not participated in a meeting of those participants since former President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018. “The...

The 2014 killing in Algeria of Gourdel was claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group. Gourdel, 55, was abducted while exploring the rugged massif in the North African nation's Djurdjura National Park, a draw for hikers, but also long a sanctuary for jihadists....

Joe Biden will make his presidential debut on the world stage on Friday as America's G7 partners re-focus their collective heft on pandemic recovery and climate change after the psychodramas of the Trump era. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's G7 chairman who hopes to host the...

Tunisair workers will strike on Friday to protest the lack of a reform plan by the company and over the freezing of company accounts by an airport operator, their labour union said on Thursday. The strike is expected to affect flights, the Tunisair syndicate official for the country's main...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and President of the European Council Charles Michel spoke over phone to discuss ways to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Following the conversation on Thursday evening, Michel tweeted that the European Union “supports the full implementation of the #JCPOA...

A total of nine Daesh/ISIS suspects who were allegedly involved in terror activities were arrested in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, according to a security source on Friday. Anti-terror police teams in Istanbul launched simultaneous operations at ten addresses in seven districts and...

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman "to reaffirm the strategic defense partnership" between the two nations, the Pentagon said Thursday.  "Secretary Austin reiterated recent changes in US policy toward the...

UN Yemen mediator Martin Griffiths on Thursday called for a stop to an offensive by the Houthi movement on the government-held city of Marib, warning that "the quest for territorial gain by force threatens all of the prospects of the peace process."

After a decade of chaos that has likely taken hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions more, the Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in its latest report that no Syrian family had been left “unscathed”.  Pointing out that “cities have been reduced to rubble, and a...

An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held...

An explosion in the Afghan capital on Thursday killed two lecturers at the Kabul University, after a bomb attached to the car they were traveling in went off, a police spokesman said. The attack took place around noon near the university, said Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz. No...

Libya’s newly elected interim prime minister on Thursday held talks in Cairo with the Egyptian president as part of his efforts to galvanize support from regional powers and try to unify the fractured North African nation. Earlier this month, Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah was elected as...

Lebanon's highest court on Thursday asked the chief prosecutor investigating last year's massive Beirut port explosion to step down, following legal challenges by senior officials he had accused of negligence that led to the blast, a judicial official and the country's official news agency...

The United Arab Emirates is sending 20,000 doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine to the Gaza Strip, a rival to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Thursday, in a decision that could have repercussions for upcoming elections. The announcement by Mohammed Dahlan came a day...