As revolution swept their region in 2011, three young Libyans joined mass protests against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule. They now live divided by Libya's frontlines, their futures irrevocably shaped by the uprising. The first demonstrations against Gaddafi's rule began in the eastern...

Residents of a Paris suburb said Monday they are being used as a propaganda tool for a “separatism” bill in the French parliament.  Speaking to Anadolu Agency, people who live in Trappes said they were disturbed by the allegations of French media outlets that they were “separatists.”...

Clalit Health Services said that in a groundbreaking project its researchers tested 600,000 subjects who had received the recommended two doses of the US-German Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the same number of people who had not been inoculated. "There was a 94 percent reduction in the rate...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supporting Kurdish armed groups that Ankara says executed 13 kidnapped Turks in northern Iraq, adding a US statement of condemnation was “a farce”. “The statement made by the United States is a farce,” Erdogan said on Monday...

Donald Trump had to be talked down from ordering the assassination of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to a former adviser. KT Macfarland, former deputy national security adviser, said that weeks after he took office in 2017, the former president insisted that he would “take...

Israel has decided not to send a delegation of defense companies to a prestigious arms fair in the United Arab Emirates next week due to coronavirus restrictions that have forced the closure of Israel’s international airport, the Defense Ministry announced Monday. Dozens of Israeli...

The vaccination campaign in Lebanon resumed on Monday at 15 medical centres, with health care workers and staff at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital receiving their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Lebanon administered its first jabs of the vaccine on Sunday, with...

Iran's foreign ministry on Monday criticized US President Joe Biden for retaining sanctions against Iran that were imposed by former president Donald Trump, calling it a matter of "shame". Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Iranian nuclear accord in 2018, a deal that had...

A massive fire that erupted when a fuel tanker exploded over the weekend at a major crossing in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on the Iranian border was brought under control on Monday, after three days of efforts by firefighters from both countries, Afghan officials said. At least...

 Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters. The SANA news agency claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down...

French lawmakers hold a key vote Tuesday on the draft law, which is expected to win approval in both houses of parliament. The legislative debate comes amid lingering fears of extremist violence after an Islamic radical beheaded a history teacher and other recent attacks. President Emmanuel...

The UK government will on Monday introduce mandatory hotel quarantine rules for arrivals from dozens of countries deemed "high risk" for coronavirus variants, as it tries to stop new strains spreading. The new policy requires all UK citizens and permanent residents entering England from 33...

Leaders of the so-called G5 Sahel – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – are attending the two-day summit in the Chadian capital N'Djamena, with French President Emmanuel Macron joining via videolink. The meeting comes a year after France boosted its Sahel deployment, seeking to...

Israel's air force began a "surprise exercise" to improve combat readiness along the country's northern border, the military said on Monday. The military said that during the drill, will which last until Wednesday, there would be an increase of air traffic throughout the country and that...

Iran said on Monday it will block snap inspections by the U.N. nuclear watchdog this month if other parties to the 2015 nuclear deal fail to fulfil their obligations, a challenge to U.S. President Joe Biden's hope of reviving the accord. "If others do not fulfil their obligations by Feb....

Iraqi security forces have arrested four individuals in the southern city of Basra suspected of killing anti-government protesters and vocal journalists, two senior security officials told AFP on Sunday. The arrests would represent the first major step towards justice for some of the nearly...

Syria claimed early Monday that Israel conducted missile strikes on military points around the capital Damascus. The Israeli air force conducted missile attacks on military targets around the capital at 01.18 a.m. local time, according to the SANA news agency, which is affiliated with the...

Global shares rose for the 11th day in a row to hit a fresh peak on optimism about the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and new fiscal aid from Washington, while tensions in the Middle East drove oil to a 13-month high. As more people are vaccinated across key markets such as the United States,...

Israeli environmentalists are warning that a UAE-Israeli oil pipeline deal threatens unique Red Sea coral reefs and could lead to "the next ecological disaster". The agreement to bring Emirati crude oil by tanker to a pipeline in the Red Sea port of Eilat was signed after Israel normalised...

 Syria's army said on Monday the country's air defenses intercepted an "Israeli aggression" over the capital, Damascus, in the latest stepped-up bombing of Iranian targets inside the country. State media did not give details of what was hit by the Israeli air force in the latest...