President Donald Trump has once again vowed to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, the world's most important effort to tackle rising temperatures.
The first Trump administration made a similar move in 2017, but that step was promptly (...)
DAVOS — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said on Tuesday that he has "cautious optimism" about Syria. "There is a great opportunity for Syria to move in a positive direction," he said while addressing a session titled "Diplomacy in (...)
Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.
These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and (...)
President Joe Biden is to remove the US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as part of a prisoner release deal, the White House said on Tuesday.
Shortly afterward, Cuba announced it would release 553 prisoners detained for "diverse (...)
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region.
This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when (...)
RIYADH — The AFC Asian Cup 2027, hosted by Saudi Arabia, will take place from January 7 to February 5, 2027.
The tournament will kick off with the opening match on January 7 and conclude with the final on February 5.
The matches will be held across (...)
Italy has summoned Iran's ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran in December, as the government and opposition ramp up public pressure on the politically sensitive case.
Cecilia Sala, a (...)
Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died at age (...)
Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, swept to power promising never to lie to the American people.
In the turbulent aftermath of Watergate, the former peanut farmer from Georgia pardoned Vietnam draft evaders and became the first US leader to (...)
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have led tributes to former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, who has died aged 100.
Carter, who lived longer than any president in history, died on Sunday afternoon at his home in Plains, (...)
Israeli forces unleashed a series of strikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the western city of Hodeidah on Thursday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more, the Iran-backed Houthis said in a statement where it vowed to (...)
The Israeli army said it launched airstrikes Thursday against Houthi targets in Yemen, including the capital Sanaa's airport, in response to the Iran-backed group's continued missile and drone attacks on Israel, which have escalated in recent (...)
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has died at the age of 92.
Singh was one of India's longest-serving prime ministers and was considered the architect of key liberalizing economic reforms, as premier from 2004-2014 and before that as (...)
Fear and uncertainty are spreading across many US college campuses ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration, with some schools advising international students to return early from winter break amid promises of another travel (...)
Israel's defense minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.
Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in (...)
For more than a week, the sprawling Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has echoed to the sound of heavy gunfire – with masked snipers on rooftops and muffled explosions within its warren of alleyways.
But the combat has not involved the (...)
Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, held talks with senior Arab diplomats on Monday, signaling growing regional engagement and cooperation following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad on December 8.
Sharaa, whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led (...)
Israel's military launched deadly strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen early Thursday, just hours after the Iran-backed militant group's latest attack on Israel.
Nine people were killed and three others injured in Israeli airstrikes on a port and oil (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to consuls general-designate to a number of countries in a ceremony held at the ministry's headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday.
The newly (...)
The Israeli Knesset has approved plans to increase the number of settlers in the Golan Heights, territory that was seized from Syria in 1967.
The announcement comes after the dramatic downfall last week of President Bashar al-Assad, with Israel's (...)
Israel has confirmed it carried out attacks on Syria's naval fleet, as part of its efforts to neutralize military assets in the country after the fall of the Assad regime.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its ships struck the (...)
Syrian media reports say Israeli warplanes have carried out dozens of attacks across the country, including in the capital, Damascus.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said there were more than 100 strikes on military (...)
Israel's prime minister has announced its military has temporarily seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria had "collapsed" with the rebel takeover of the (...)
A mountainous task ahead as Syria, battered by almost 14 years of division and fighting under a brutal civil war looks ahead to shape its new future after the end of Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule.
As the dust settles on the dramatic downfall of (...)
The Syrian government collapsed early Sunday as opposition forces launched a swift and decisive offensive that captured the capital, Damascus, ending the Assad family's 50-year rule.
Jubilant crowds filled the streets to celebrate what many viewed (...)
