The United States announced on Friday that it will no longer pursue the $10 million "Rewards for Justice" bounty on Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), signaling a significant shift in its (...)
The United States government is a day away from running out of money as Congress scrambles to come up with a short-term funding plan.
On Thursday night, a revised spending plan by Republicans that would have averted a government shutdown failed to (...)
US diplomats are in the Syrian capital Damascus where they plan to meet representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group now in charge but which Washington still designates as a terrorist organization.
The visit follows those of (...)
Nearly three decades after being nominated for an Oscar, British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste is back in the awards race thanks to a tremendous performance in director Mike Leigh's new drama, Hard Truths.
The 57-year-old jokes she feels "older and (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi national football team will participate in the 2025 and 2027 editions of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, beginning with the upcoming tournament hosted by the United States and Canada from June 14 to July 6, 2025.
Saudi Arabia joins eight (...)
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 (...)
President-elect Donald Trump joked that it would be a "great idea" for Canada to become the 51st state of the US, as Canadian leader Justin Trudeau faces a domestic political crisis linked to fears over a potential tariff war with Trump.
"Many (...)
An American citizen has pleaded guilty to helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.
Prosecutors say Chen Jinping and his co-defendant Lu Jianwang opened and operated (...)
NOUAKCHOTT — Deputy Foreign Minister Eng. Walid Al-Kheraiji stressed that Saudi Arabia has led great efforts to resolve the current crisis in Sudan.
He reiterated the Kingdom's emphasis on the need to continue coordination with other Arab and (...)
China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world's longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country's ambitious space program.
Cai Xuzhe and Song (...)
Hamas has become the latest party to the Gaza hostage and ceasefire negotiations to voice optimism about the prospects of reaching a deal, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region.
In an official statement on Tuesday, Hamas said reaching (...)
A 29-year-old Uzbekistan citizen has been detained in Moscow over the killing of top general Igor Kirillov, according to Russia's security service.
Russian state agency TASS reported on Wednesday that the man was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence. (...)
The founder of failed media and entertainment firm Ozy Media, Carlos Watson, has been sentenced to nearly a decade in prison for lying about the company to attract investors.
Prosecutors said the former MSNBC host and ex-Goldman Sachs banker had (...)
US President-elect Donald Trump is meeting the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to have it banned in the US.
Trump was due to meet Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports, (...)
The woman who stowed away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris last month was taken into custody again, this time trying to sneak into Canada, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN.
Svetlana Dali managed to cut off her ankle monitor on (...)
RIYADH — The Chairman of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, has confirmed that Saudi Arabia is the third country in the world, after the United States and the United Kingdom, to join OECD's (...)
The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, called on Sunday for an immediate end to Western sanctions on Syria following the ouster of President Bashar Assad.
Speaking in Damascus, Pedersen emphasized the need for reconstruction (...)
AQABA, Jordan — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, took part in the meeting of the Arab Ministerial Contact Committee on Syria on Saturday in Aqaba, Jordan.
The committee, established by an Arab League resolution, includes (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia claimed first place at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY), outperforming 129 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Greece, Canada, and Singapore.
The (...)
A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who oversaw the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 and 2008, was charged by a federal grand jury with several (...)
US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.
The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single (...)
The Taliban's refugee minister was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by ISIS in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, according to officials.
Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of current Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads the (...)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray has said he will resign before President-elect Donald Trump, who has indicated he would fire him, takes office next month.
Wray announced at an internal FBI meeting on Wednesday that he had (...)
A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
"Imagine this: there are 4,000 nuclear warheads that could (...)
RIYADH — The Extraordinary FIFA Congress 2024, which met virtually on Wednesday, announced officially Saudi Arabia as the host of the 2034 World Cup. The Federation Internationale De Football Association (FIFA)President Giovanni Infantino made the (...)
