Ireland has re-elected Michael Higgins as president for a second seven-year term. The 77-year old received 55.8 percent of the vote in Friday's election, winning in every constituency, news agencies reported on Saturday. "The

A four-way summit on Syria has ended with no major breakthrough, even as the leaders of Turkey, Russia, Germany and France agreed that a fragile ceasefire in Idlib should be preserved and said a committee

BEIRUT: Syria’s militant-dominated Idlib province is the last major area still outside regime control, after a string of ferocious assaults this year put most of the country back in government hands.The northwestern province and

TSOFAR, Israel: Every morning with the first rays of sunlight, Eitan Guedj leaves his house in Israel, passes through two checkpoints and heads for his pepper plantation in Ghumar, a leased Jordanian territory the

BEIRUT: Daesh has killed 41 US-backed fighters in Syria who are battling to oust the extremists from their eastern holdout of Hajin on the Iraqi border, a war monitor said Saturday.Daesh late Friday dispatched suicide

A suspect has been taken into custody in Pittsburgh, in the US state of Pennsylvania, after a shooting that caused "multiple casualties" at a synagogue, according to police. At least three police officers were

Leaders from Turkey, Russia, France and Germany are meeting in Istanbul to discuss the conflict in Syria. The United Nations has said that Damascus is blocking efforts to draft a new constitution which is

Benjamin Netanyahu has made the first official visit to Oman by an Israeli leader in 24 years. The visit comes three days after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas visited the Gulf nation and is a

Sao Paulo, Brazil - Brazilians go to the polls on Sunday to elect their next president, with most signs suggesting that South America's most populous nation will elect a far-right ex-army captain who many

The war in Afghanistan is forcing people from religious minorities to leave the country. But not everyone can afford to escape persecution and seek a new life abroad. The Afghan government has said that