AL-ASAD AIR BASE: President Donald Trump used a lightning visit to Iraq — his first with US troops in a conflict zone since being elected — to defend withdrawing from Syria and to declare

The Israeli army says it has destroyed another cross-border tunnel, which it claims was built by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. A video released by the Israelis on Wednesday showed an officer shouting across

The UN is expecting at least another two million Venezuelans to flee their country in the coming year. In Peru, immigration officials are cracking down those working without a permit and have said that

Israeli authorities have advanced plans for nearly 2,200 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, an NGO and Israeli media said. A defence ministry committee with responsibility for such projects on Tuesday and Wednesday

The husband of a British Iranian woman detained in Iran on spying charges is calling for her release. Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016 and was later sentenced to

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has announced the end of a martial law, which was introduced last month after a clash with Russia in the Sea of Azov. During a live-streamed military cabinet meeting in capital

DUBAI: The Yemeni army, with support from the Arab Coalition, launched a new military operation on Tuesday to free sites located between the two Houthi fronts Northwest of Saada, the stronghold of the president

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak asks El-Sisi for ‘permission’ to testify in Morsi trial CAIRO: Egypt’s deposed president Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday asked current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for “permission” to disclose sensitive information in the

RABAT: Moroccan authorities say a total of 19 people have been arrested in connection with the murders of two Nordic tourists in the Atlas Mountains.Boubker Sabik, a spokesman for Morocco’s national security agency, says

In a surprise trip to Iraq, President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw US forces from Syria where they have been helping battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant