ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS IN THE PERSIAN GULF: A US aircraft carrier sailed into the Arabian Gulf on Friday, becoming the first since America’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and breaking

Kafr Kila, Lebanon - Across the border wall that divides the village of Kfar Kila in south Lebanon from Israel, the sound of Israeli excavations is disturbing a relative calm that has endured for 12

The peace treaty signed by government leaders and separatist rebels in Mali in 2015 was meant to usher in a new era of peace and stability in the northwest African country. But progress in

Two people have been arrested in connection with the "criminal use of drones" at London Gatwick Airport, police have said, after three days of disruption affected tens of thousands of passengers during the pre-Christmas

Canada has moved away from diplomatic caution and made its first formal demand for China to immediately release two Canadians who have been detained in apparent retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top Chinese

The US government officially shutdown at midnight on Friday (05:00 GMT) after President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the Senate failed to muster the votes needed to approve $5bn he has demanded for a

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to send a civilian observer mission to Yemen to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea port of Hodeidah and supervise the

ISTANBUL, PARIS, BERLIN: Turkey will postpone a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday as he “cautiously” welcomed a US decision to withdraw its troops

KHARTOUM: A Sudanese government spokesman said on Friday that nationwide protests over soaring prices that have left at least eight people dead in the past two days had been “derailed and transformed by infiltrators.”

The US government was headed toward a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the Senate failed to muster the votes needed to approve $5bn he has demanded