Israeli forces have closed all entrances to occupied East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex amid ongoing confrontation with Palestinian worshippers, a Palestinian official has said. "Dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa compound and

WIESBADEN: An Iraqi man confessed in a German court Tuesday to the murder of a teenage girl which last year inflamed anti-immigrant tensions. He denied raping her. “My vision went black and then it happened,”

TEHRAN: Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving, her husband said Tuesday.Sotoudeh is an award-winning

BAGHOUZ: Daesh was close to defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday after ferocious bombardments overnight and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the offensive to capture the area was nearly over.The beseiged

Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader.  Maduro started a second term on January 10, following a widely boycotted election

Saudi women's right to drive activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, is standing trial on Wednesday after spending nearly 10 months in prison on charges of supporting "hostile elements". Sources told Al Jazeera that al-Hathloul, who has

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said he has abandoned his bid for a fifth term. But the man who has led Algeria for nearly 20 years does not seem to be leaving his post any

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Some 50 people sat in tense silence underneath a white tent outside a gated house on the southern outskirts of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. The women were dressed in plain mourning

British legislators have rejected beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, plunging the future of the UK's bid to leave the European Union deeper into crisis and raising the possibility of a delayed departure.

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot dead by soldiers, Israel’s army said.