A ban in force since 2003 on Palestinians and citizens and residents of Israel extending their rights to their Palestinian spouses has come to an end after lawmakers failed to extend the controversial measure...

Erbil Airport in northern Iraq was reportedly attacked by a drone armed with explosives while hosting US troops, it has been reported...

 Turkish and Kyrgyz authorities abducted, forcibly disappeared, and extrajudicially transferred a dual Turkish-Kyrgyz national living in Bishkek to Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today...

Saad Hariri should stop trying to form a Lebanese government and quit. He should return back to just becoming an MP or simply return to private life as the businessman billionaire par excellence...

Palestinian journalists staged a one-hour strike on Tuesday in protest against Palestinian security’s failure to protect their profession...

Fears are growing of a resurgence of Daesh after a spate of killings at a camp in northeast Syria that houses extremist fighters’ families...

After 70 years, the Cowessess First Nation has retaken control over its children’s welfare under a historic agreement signed Tuesday...

At least 150 people were killed in the three-day Fourth of July holiday weekend, known as Independence Day in the US, according to a tracker...

Terming a statement of a top Japanese official as “dangerous,” China on Tuesday reiterated that it won’t allow any country to interfere in Taiwan, state-run media said...

The daily coronavirus death toll in Russia hit a new peak of 737 on Tuesday, raising the nationwide tally to 139,316, authorities said...

Algerians are celebrating their 59th Independence Day on Monday, recalling the heavy price that they paid to gain freedom from the French colonial rule...

Search teams announced finding remains of the passenger plane which has lost contact with the control unit early Tuesday east of Russia...

Ethiopia has informed Egypt of the start of the second year of the filling of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River, raising tensions with downstream countries...

Dozens of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have released a statement condemning human rights abuses in Iran, calling for further sanctions and urging the EU to “address the yearning of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy...

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab sounded the alarm Tuesday, calling on the international community to help stave off a “social explosion...

A court in Belarus sentenced former Belarusian presidential contender Viktar Babaryka to 14 years in prison on corruption charges...

Concerns have grown that a "third wave" could be experienced in the course of the outbreak as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which first appeared in India, begins to spread around the world...

Lebanon has suffered decades of political assassinations that targeted top political, religious and security leaders, journalists and thinkers...

The death toll from last month's collapse of a condominium building near Miami rose to 28 with the discovery of four more bodies on Monday, local officials announced...

Tunisia’s Ennahda movement called Monday for the formation of a “political government” capable of addressing the current crisis facing the country...