World champion Lewis Hamilton was Thursday given the green light to return to racing at this weekend's season-ending Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix after recovering from coronavirus. Hamilton, 35, missed last Sunday's Sakhir GP but the FIA and Mercedes both confirmed that he had passed a...

A protester was killed and another critically injured as ongoing protests in northern Iraq over deteriorating economic conditions turned violent, local sources said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Sulaymaniyah's Kifri district, according...

In another record-high daily death toll from COVID-19, the US for the first time has seen the number of fatalities top 3,000. According to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University, a total of 3,124 fatalities and more than 221,000 cases were recorded on Wednesday. The grim milestone...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday renewed a call for a change of leadership in Armenia, while offering the country the chance of joining a regional cooperation group alongside Azerbaijan. Erdogan made the comments in Baku, where he reviewed a military parade marking Armenia’s...

Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul appeared before a special terrorism court in Riyadh on Thursday, her family said, on charges U.N. human rights experts called “spurious” and they called for her immediate release. Hathloul has been held since 2018 after being arrested along...

Ankara believes besieged Turkish troops could be used as leverage against it if Syrian government forces stage new offensive Turkey plans to pull out from more military positions in areas of Syria’s Idlib province held by the Syrian government, Turkish sources told Middle East Eye on...

An Egyptian court on Thursday opened the trial of Mahmud Ezzat, interim supreme leader of outlawed Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood, a judicial source told AFP. "The hearing was held before the State Security Court at Tora Prison" in the capital Cairo, the source said, on condition...

Forces loyal to eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar on Thursday said they had released a Turkish-owned ship, after seizing it over the weekend in Libyan waters. Haftar's high command "released the Mabrooka, flying a Jamaican flag, after inspecting it and completing its investigation...

A car bombing at a checkpoint in a Turkish-controlled area in northeastern Syria on Thursday killed at least two Turkish soldiers and two local security officers with the Syrian opposition, a Turkish official said. It was the latest in a string of attacks in Turkish-controlled areas in...

 France's foreign minister said during a visit to Doha on Thursday that his country's policies against extremism had been misrepresented and were not Islamophobic despite facing fierce criticism. Paris has faced criticism for draft legislation presented as clamping down on Islamist...

Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months. As part of the agreement, U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to recognize...

Landmines laid by groups fighting during the civil war in Syria have killed at least 2,601 civilians so far, a human rights group said on Thursday. As many as 2,601 civilians, including 598 children and 267 women, have died from mine explosions since the beginning of the war in March...

Yemen's internationally recognised government and southern separatists will form a cabinet within a week as part of a Saudi-sponsored power sharing agreement, a Riyadh-led coalition said Thursday, after a series of delays. The so-called Riyadh Agreement which was struck late last year was...

The Islamic State group killed nine Iran-trained Syrian fighters in an attack on one of their positions in eastern Syria on Thursday, an anti-regime war monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an IS sleeper cell carried out the dawn attack on the desert...

Syrian families who fled attacks by the Assad regime to take refuge in a camp in the northwestern Idlib province have turned their tents into part-time schools to enable their children to continue their education. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, hundreds of schools have...

A report by the UN refugee agency estimated that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year, noting that the full picture for 2020 is not yet established. “With forced displacement doubling in the last decade, the international community is failing to safeguard peace,” said...

Britain warned the European Union on Thursday that it must make significant concessions to break the impasse in Brexit trade talks by the end of the weekend to give some finality to the five year Brexit crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Union’s chief executive gave...

Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state filed lawsuits against the social media company, saying it used a “buy or bury” strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay....

Hunter Biden, the son of US President-elect Joe Biden and a frequent target of Republican attacks, said Wednesday he was under federal investigation about his taxes. The revelation about the probe included no details, but it promises to rekindle Republican rage about the Biden family,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set Thursday to lay the foundations for a huge new Indian parliament, the centrepiece of a grand but contentious redevelopment of New Delhi's colonial-era core. Critics say the 200 billion rupees ($2.7 billion) that the Hindu nationalist government is...