An American pastor whose detention for the past two years by Turkey sparked a crisis in ties with the United States went back on trial on Friday with Washington hopeful he will finally be

An Egyptian court in Cairo has renewed the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein for the 17th time. He has been in prison in Egypt for 661 days despite not being charged.  In

Berlin, Germany - On Friday evenings in Mitte, Berlin's central district, the sound of an oud travels up from the public library's ground floor. The Middle Eastern string instrument is being played in a room

A United Nations body has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately halt its deadly air raids against civilians in war-torn Yemen and prosecute officials responsible for child casualties due to unlawful attacks. The statement

IRBIL, Iraq: A joint task force of US coalition and Iraqi special forces has arrested 10 suspected members of a network that provided funding for Daesh in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil,

TEL AVIV: An American graduate student who has been held in detention while fighting an expulsion order over her involvement in the boycott movement against Israel appeared in court on Thursday, asking a judge

BEIRUT: US-backed fighters braved a sandstorm to battle the Daesh group in eastern Syria on Thursday in heavy clashes that killed several fighters on both sides. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led group,

Islamabad, Pakistan - On a brisk February night in the village of Ranjhay Khan in central Pakistan, Ghulam Qadir received a phone call: "Come and meet us," the voice said, "and we will resolve all

At least 31 people have been killed when a landslide rolled down the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda, wrecking homes and burying animals. Martin Owor, Commissioner for Disaster Preparedness and Management, said

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration of seeking to assassinate him as relations strain between the ideologically opposed nations. In a televised broadcast on Thursday night, Maduro - a former bus driver