While Paris seeks to take a leading role in Iraq, its agenda is likely to prompt further geopolitical tensions for a country already stricken with regional competition...

The death toll from a prison riot in Ecuador rose to 118 on Thursday with more than 80 injured, officials said...

Najla Bouden Romdhane has become the first prime minister in Tunisia and the Arab world as she is expected to fight against a looming crisis in public finances...

Sama news agency on Monday revealed that jailed Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti said that “the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no authority,” adding that the battle for Jerusalem “revealed the inability and fragility” of the Palestin...

Parliament in New Zealand agreed a counter-terrorism legislation on Thursday, granting more powers to security agencies in their efforts to fight terrorism, the country's immigration minister said...

Israeli forves have killed a young Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, reports say...

France's Ex-president, Nicolas Sarkozy, got one year jail term after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing in the 2012 election...

The Sudanese government warned Wednesday that continuing construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without a binding agreement poses a direct threat to Sudan...

More than 100 people have died and dozens more were injured in a fight between rival gangs Ecuador jail, officials revealed on Wednesday...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that Pyongyang would restore severed communications lines with Seoul in early October in a sign of thawing inter-Korean relations, while at the same time slamming U...

Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Wednesday arrived in Beirut on an official visit during which he will meet with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the...

A G20 extraordinary meeting on Afghanistan was set on October 12 to discuss the situation in Kabul, Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Wednesday...

UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council on Wednesday that Israel is still destroying structures in the Occupied Palestinian Territories...

The US has hailed Yesterday the return of Yemen’s Prime Minister Maeen Abdul Malik Saeed to Aden pointing out that it had and will continue monitoring the situation Yemen...

Relatives of people killed in Beirut blast have rallied on Wednesday against a decision to suspend the probe...

Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid has landed in Bahrain on Thursday leading a delegation in a first official visit to the Gulf...

Iraq and the Netherlands supported the UN agencies responsible for children and counter-terrorism to launch a global framework to support UN member states willing to repatriate their citizens from Iraq and Syria on Wednesday...

Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Wednesday that Najla Bouden will be the country’s first female prime minister, two months after assuming executive power...

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced on Wednesday that the EU has allocated €300 million ($348...

As Iraq prepares to hold its sixth parliamentary elections since 2005 – and under the guise of the US intervention that threw out Saddam Hussein and installed a new so-called political “democratic” system – different scenarios are conjuring u...