Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program with the American spy agency. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili...

Lebanon's cash-strapped authorities are struggling to decide what to do about a $1.2 billion Eurobond maturing in March but are leaning towards repayment for foreign holders and a swap for local investors, political and banking sources said on Tuesday. Lebanon, which has never defaulted on...

The top U.S. commander for the Middle East slipped quietly into Iraq Tuesday, as the Trump administration works to salvage relations with Iraqi leaders and shut down the government's push for an American troop withdrawal. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie became the most senior U.S. military...

Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village in northern Cameroon early Tuesday, torching homes and killing two civilians just days before legislative and municipal elections, security sources said. "Boko Haram made an incursion a little before 2:00am in Mozogo village," in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb killed and wounded dozen of regime army troops south of Damascus when it blew up on the 'Peace highway', activists told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. The blast targeted a checkpoint for the 68 Tank Brigade at the gate of Khan al-Sheeh in the southwestern...

Afghanistan’s Taliban on Tuesday accused the United States of hampering peace negotiations in response to the top American diplomat’s comments that a reduction in violence was needed before a deal to end years of war could be struck. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said during...

 Hong Kong reported its first coronavirus death on Tuesday, the second outside mainland China from a fast-spreading outbreak that has killed 427 people and threatened the global economy. China’s markets steadied after losing $400 billion in stock values the previous day, and global...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Venezuela on Friday in a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro, a socialist who Washington wants out of power. Russia has helped Maduro weather a political crisis as the United States has targeted Caracas with sanctions and, like...

An Israeli prison has launched a sometimes-violent crackdown on Palestinian prisoners at Ofar prison, west of Ramallah, said a Palestinian prisoners’ group on Tuesday. Though the number of injured prisoners is not clear, four detainees were referred for investigations and 38 detainees were...

Iran will be committed to its pledges if the members of the nuclear agreement fulfill their obligations, the country's president on Tuesday stressed during a meeting in the capital Tehran with the EU foreign policy chief. Hassan Rouhani said in his meeting meeting with Josep Borrell that...

Red Bull's Max Verstappen says he can beat Lewis Hamilton to the Formula One title if his car is good enough, insisting Britain's six-time world champion is "not God". The 22-year-old Dutchman could prove Hamilton's closest challenger this year, following Red Bull's strong finish to the end...

Britain's plans for a UN summit on climate change later this year are "miles off track", the sacked former head of the project warned in a leaked letter published Tuesday. Claire O'Neill, who was removed as COP 26 president last week, launched a blistering attack on the leadership of Prime...

Sudan's leader Tuesday briefed the country's ruling body after the Israeli prime minister said the two had discussed normalising bilateral ties after decades of hostility. On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he had met General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chairman of Sudan's ruling...

OPEC members and their ally Russia are discussing a further cut to crude oil output at a meeting in Vienna because of China's coronavirus epidemic, Iraq's oil ministry said Tuesday. Crude prices have tumbled since the deadly outbreak in the world's second-biggest economy, which is a huge...

The world will see a 60% increase in cancer cases over the next two decades if current trends continue, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. “The greatest increase [an estimated 81%] in new cases will occur in low- and middle-income countries where survival rates are currently...

Representatives of the warring parties in Libya meeting in Geneva have agreed on the principle of turning their shaky truce into a lasting ceasefire, the U.N.'s Libya envoy said Tuesday. "The principle has been adopted from the first session. Now the question is what are the conditions,"...

Lebanon's English-language The Daily Star suspended its print edition Tuesday, the latest casualty in the collapse of the country's once-flourishing press. The newspaper, which is co-owned by the family of former prime minister Saad Hariri, said on its website the temporary halt of the...

French police on Tuesday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets. The migrants, who included four women, were living in 266 tents and makeshift shelters in a canal-side camp "strewn with waste...

Anti-government demonstrators faced off against followers of influential cleric Moqtada Sadr in protest squares across Iraq Tuesday, a day after one demonstrator was killed in a clash between the two sides. Sadr, an enigmatic militiaman-turned-politician, backed the anti-government rallies...

Islamic State extremists are mounting increasingly bold attacks in Syria and Iraq following their loss of territory in both countries and are planning for the breakout of their fighters in detention facilities, U.N. experts said in a new report. The panel of experts said in the report...