Gunmen in Iran's volatile southeast killed a police officer and wounded another in a shootout with security forces, news agencies reported Saturday. The clash occurred in Sistan-Baluchistan province. ...

President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington including deployment of the National Guard, prompting the city's mayor to voice legal concerns about who ...

Nearly 200 people were killed in torrential rains in northwest Pakistan over the past 24 hours, with bad weather also bringing down a rescue helicopter, local officials said on Friday. Cloud bursts, ...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has approved plans for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, a move his office said would bury the idea of a ...

Contemplating the devastation that has befallen Gaza and the suffering of its people, one cannot help but think of another nation. Thousands of years ago, in the same region, a nation was persecuted ...

Russian forces have made a sudden thrust into eastern Ukraine near the coal mining town of Dobropillia, a move that may be an attempt to increase the pressure on Kyiv to give up land as the US and ...

European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “constructive” discussion with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days ahead of Trump’s planned meeting in Alaska with ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty on Saturday held separate talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, highlighting the qualitative development in the ...

The fate of Hezbollah’s arms is no longer a domestic dispute between advocates of sovereignty and supporters of the “resistance.” Since the 2023–2024 war with Israel, this question has been distilling ...

Modern slavery is prevalent in Yemeni regions under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias, including the capital Sanaa. Sources close to the group told Asharq Al-Awsat that several civilians ...

Tunisia said on Saturday that it intends to join the BRICS countries bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, spokesman for the pro ...

Saudi Arabia and Iraq signed the executive report on the principles of the electricity interconnection agreement between the two countries implementing the memorandum of understanding signed at the ...