The United States on Tuesday expanded its sanctions on Lebanon, blacklisting the former finance and transport ministers and accusing them of providing material and financial help to Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah, following a powerful blast last month in Beirut that left the country...

Turkish security forces have arrested a suspect of the 2013 attack in the Reyhanli district of Turkey's southern Hatay province, the country's interior minister announced Tuesday. Ercan Bayat had been listed in the blue category with a bounty of 3 million Turkish liras ($400,850) in the...

Two more Spanish towns are being cordoned off due to growing novel coronavirus outbreaks, as the Ministry of Health reported nearly 9,000 new infections on Tuesday. Over the last two weeks, 110,996 new infections have been diagnosed -- a number that keeps on ballooning. The last two...

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held talks Tuesday in the Iranian capital, becoming the second senior Indian minister to visit the Islamic republic this week. "A productive meeting with FM @JZarif during a stopover in Tehran," he tweeted, after a meeting with his Iranian...

A Lebanese judge leading the probe into Beirut's catastrophic port blast has summoned an outgoing minister and two security agency heads to testify, a judicial source said Tuesday. Judge Fadi Sawan is to hear caretaker transport and public works minister Michel Najjar and State Security...

The US election, eight weeks from Tuesday, is boiling down to a handful of battleground states that Joe Biden must flip in order to snatch the White House from President Donald Trump. All of this year's top swing states -- Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and...

The CEOs of nine companies developing vaccines against Covid-19 on Tuesday pledged to "uphold the integrity of the scientific process" amid concern Donald Trump will pressure regulators to approve a vaccine ahead of the presidential election in November. "We, the undersigned...

 The US Embassy said Tuesday the State Department has sold the ambassador's official residence near Tel Aviv - a decision that cements the embassy's controversial move to Occupied Jerusalem. In an announcement, the embassy did not identify the buyer or disclose the sale price. But...

President Donald Trump's chief of staff said Tuesday he is optimistic that Republicans and Democrats in Congress will reach agreement on a new pandemic emergency aid bill before the November 3 election. However, Mark Meadows told Fox Business the president continues to oppose the massive...

The Palestinian leadership has watered down its criticism of the normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates before an Arab League meeting in Cairo Wednesday at which the accord will be debated. A draft resolution presented by the Palestinian envoy, a copy of which was...

Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton on Tuesday announced he was entering a team in the Extreme E competition, a new electric off-road racing series that aims to shed light on environmental issues. It will be Hamilton's first foray into motorsport team ownership, although he...

A so-called Akram AlSelti has been appointed as the new military chief of staff of the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime, replacing Major-General Mohamed Tareq AlKhadraa, who died of coronavirus last month. AlSelti served as deputy chief of staff. He...

Syrian Kurds have started to transfer the "least radical" foreign women and their children linked to the Islamic State group out of an overcrowded in northeast Syria to begin rehabilitation, an official said Tuesday. So far 76 families have been transferred since July from Al-Hol to the Roj...

Russia urges relaunch of the talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots aiming to resolve the Cyprus problem, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "We believe the early launch of negotiations on a final solution to the Cyprus problem would create the atmosphere necessary to find a...

Russia is preparing to send 1,000 mercenaries from Syria to reinforce warlord Khalifa Haftar’s illegal forces in eastern Libya, according to local sources. The mercenaries will be sent from areas in eastern Syria that are under the Assad regime’s control, particularly the northeastern...

The Saudi trial which convicted eight people of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi nearly two years ago lacked transparency, the UN said on Tuesday. Rupert Colville, spokesman for Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was asked by Anadolu Agency if the UN would...

 The Syrian authorities have arrested 500 beggars in Damascus, seeking to restrict the mounting number of people who took begging as profession, the Social Affairs Ministry said Tuesday. State-run Tishreen newspaper quoted the Director of Social Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Dumarani, as...

Iran's state television, citing an unnamed official, announced Tuesday that British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing a new charge. The report did not elaborate beyond saying that Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared Tuesday monring before a branch of the country’s...

World shares struggled Tuesday as doubts about a recovery in tech stocks lingered after last week's rout, while the dollar awaited policy signals from the European Central Bank and the pound remained hostage to Brexit jitters. Fresh tensions between Washington and Beijing after US President...

 The UN agency for refugees says it has confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. They are the first infections to be detected among Syrians living in refugee camps in Jordan, which are home to more than 100,000 Syrians displaced by that country’s...