Iraqi security sources say at least three Katyusha rockets have landed within Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, including the US embassy, less than a day after rocket and drone attacks ta...

The United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) vote on the draft resolution Tunisia submitted on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could be put off until next week, diplomatic sources in New York told Ahram Online...

Most of the foreign takfiri fighters held in Syria's containment camps and living in the country's north-western Idlib province are spurned by their home countries and their wives and hapless children are rejected for repatriation...

The Algerian presidency announced on Wednesday the formation of a new government headed by Prime Minister Ayman Ben Abdelrahman...

A new bill going through the United Kingdom parliament is seeking to make it illegal for a person to help an asylum seeker enter the country...

Due to the destruction wrought by the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza, the besieged area needs up to $485 billion to recover, a new report by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the European Union says...

World leaders denounced on Wednesday the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in an attack that left First Lady Martine Moise injured...

The US and French ambassadors to Beirut are scheduled to arrive Thursday in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to discuss the crisis in Lebanon...

The coalition government formed by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the Green Party narrowly won a vote of confidence from parliament on Wednesday...

In what appears to be part of an upward trend across Europe, Cyprus has moved to shut down human rights group KISA among others...

The Taliban on Wednesday launched their first assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan, since waging a major offensive against government forces, local officials said...

The President of Haiti Jovenel Moise has been assassinated in a nighttime raid on his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince, according to the prime minister...

When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman embraced Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani in the Saudi city of Al-Ula on Jan...

Italy has eased the restrictions on the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an apparent attempt to soothe diplomatic tensions with the kingdoms, despite the duo’s bloody crimes during the war on Yemen...

Power shortages in Iran have given rise to widespread blackouts and triggered protests in the streets...

Israel has agreed on a Covid-19 vaccine swap with South Korea, sending 700,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab to Seoul "immediately" in return for the same number in coming months...

The criminal court yesterday sentenced a man to death after convicting him of the kidnap and murder of a mother of two, a crime which shocked the country...

South Korea saw its daily tally of new COVID-19 infections reach a six-month high on Wednesday, as the country reported 1,212 cases amid a growing outbreak that has officials concerned a fourth wave of the pandemic is underway...

Yemeni officials say the United States is fanning the flames of violence in the embattled southern province of al-Bayda by mobilizing and commanding Takfiri al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists against the Yemeni army and allied popular forces, who have bee...

Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has warned that the country is hurtling toward a “social explosion” and appealed on the international community for assistance to prevent the demise of the nation facing multiple crises...