An intruder stabbed and wounded five people at a rabbi’s house in upstate New York during a party to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah late Saturday, officials said. The victims, all Hasidic members of the Jewish faith, were ...
A US drone has reportedly conducted a reconnaissance flight off the Crimean Peninsula despite multiple calls by Russia that the Pentagon halt such operations near the country’s territory. Russia’s Sputnik news agency cited the monito...
Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in the final round of protests held on a weekly basis near the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Occupied Territories, leaving a number of protesters injured. Palestinian media outlets rep...
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Friday that the country’s first Avangard hypersonic missiles have been put into service, an official statement said. Russian officials say the missile is highly maneuve...
Fears are growing of a total war with North Korea over its threat of a "Christmas surprise" for the US, with Washington saying it is well prepared to respond. Pyongyang has promised a possible "Christmas surprise" missile test if Was...
A senior Iranian official says Israel “will regret” committing acts of aggression against Syria, and that the Syrian and Lebanese nations will give a response to the Tel Aviv regime. “Israeli airstrikes against Syria will not go unanswered, and Tel ...
Manuel Marrero Cruz has been named Cuba’s prime minister, taking a political post that had been abolished more than four decades ago. President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday named 56-year-old Marrero — who served as Cuba’s tourism minister fo...
A Russian court on Tuesday extended until late March the pre-trial detention of a US man already held in jail for a year despite Western requests for his release. Paul Whelan, who also has Irish, Canadian and British citizenship, was arrest...
An official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has categorically dismissed a report by the Reuters news agency that claimed a death toll of around 1,500 people during recent riots over fuel price hikes. The London-based news outlet s...
The Israeli occupation army started constructing bypass roads on border with Lebanon in order to protect troops from Hezbollah attacks, taking into consideration the lessons it learned from the Resistance operations against one of its vehicles in Avi...
Lynn Maalouf, director of research for the Middle East at Amnesty International, said, in response to a death sentence issued by a Saudi court against 5 people, and imprisoning three others, for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, this verdict ...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sparred on Monday over the ground rules for President Donald Trump’s trial in the Senate on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Pelosi, the speaker ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the contentious citizenship law that has sparked angry anti-government protests across the country over the past two weeks is not discriminatory on the basis of religion and will not affect the Muslim ...
Religious minority lawmakers at the Iranian parliament have condemned a UN human rights resolution against Tehran, calling it a conspiracy hatched by the United States, Israel and their allies. The resolution, sponsored by Canada, was passed at the U...
The European Union and Russia have lashed out at the United States over its recent move to impose sanction on any firm working on a gas pipeline from Russia into Germany. The sanctions, signed off by US President Donald Trump on Frid...
Hong Kong riot police pepper sprayed protesters to disperse crowds in the heart of the city's financial district on Sunday after a largely peaceful rally in support of China's ethnic Uighurs turned chaotic. Dozens of police marched across a ...
A car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a hotel in Galkayo city in the central province of Mudug, killing at least seven civilians and injuring others, a Somali army officer said. Major Ali Omar said the driver failed to enter the hotel complex, cau...
Dozens of Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday evening Israeli occupation forces fire during their participation in the return marches and break the siege along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Health in Gaza said...
House Speaker Nabih Berri said during his meeting with Assistant Secretary of State David Hale that “Israel is solely responsible for the breaches of Resolution 1701, not the last of which being the drone flights over the southern suburbs.” It’s wor...
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo has reiterated earlier remarks by the UN General Secretary that the body cannot verify US claims blaming Iran for attacks on Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil facilities. ...