Saudi Arabia has arrested over 200 people for violating "public decency", casting doubt on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's so-called plan to "modernize" the ultra-conservative Arab kingdom. Riyadh police said about 120 men and women have been arre...
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said air strikes against Iraq’s paramilitary force, known as Hadh Shaabi, succeeded, and he did not rule out additional action “as necessary.” “The strikes were successful. The pilots and aircraft re...
Greece wants to be included in UN-sponsored talks in January on the Libya conflict, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Sunday, as tensions escalate with neighbor Turkey over the issue. Libya has become another diplomatic front for Greec...
Israeli prisons are rife with mistreatment and abuse of Palestinian inmates, a rights advocacy group says, highlighting that well over 1,000 complaints of torture by prison guards have been filed since 2001. “According to the Public Committe...
Ansarullah’s Political Bureau has condemned the US attack against the popular crowd sites in Iraq, considering it as a brutal attack on Iraq and its forces that oppose the destructive American project in the region. The political Bureau expressed fu...
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...