UN rights chief Volker Turk said Wednesday he hopes a new Israeli government will "change course massively" and respect ...

A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 68 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to ...

Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday Tehran remained in close contact with intermediaries on discussing ideas for ...

Israel's president voiced hope Wednesday for avoiding a second election after a hard-fought vote produced no clear winner, ...

Cyclone Arnab dumped heavy rain across India ’s eastern Andhra Pradesh state and caused extensive damage in some areas ...

Minister Lana Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates' nominee for United Nations Secretary-General, has a unique opportunity to become one of the most successful leaders in the organization's history.

Today, we are living through a pivotal transitional period in which the world is shifting from a unipolar system to a multipolar one, marked by intertwined interests and intensifying rivalries. What ...

The sound of the treacherous gunfire in the Jordanian village of Hamoud Al-Karak has revived discussion about Arab Christians, their place in the Arab and Islamic civilizational fabric, and whether ...

A clash on the restive border between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed one person and injured five, Pakistan officials said ...

Almost no major event anywhere in the world, the French protests being the latest example, fails to split the Lebanese along the lines of their original divisions. There are those who stand against ...

Since King Faisal's 1973 decision to impose an oil embargo on a number of countries, Riyadh has occupied an increasingly prominent place in international media, and Saudi Arabia's domestic and foreign ...

Syria on Tuesday condemned strikes on the country's south by Jordan a day earlier that Amman said targeted the ISIS group in ...