
PALESTINE
Abbas to issue State of Palestine passports
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his government considers changing the name it uses on Palestinian passports to the State of Palestine.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his government considers changing the name it uses on Palestinian passports to the State of Palestine.

A Yemeni counteroffensive hits oil giant Aramco’s facilities in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

Election officials in Haiti delay presidential and parliamentary runoff elections amid reports of voter fraud in the first round.

About 20 people, including at least 12 civilians, are said to have been killed in US airstrikes in the troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Two Turkish soldiers are killed and six others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Bitlis.

The US police have arrested a Donald Trump supporter who was planning to bomb American Muslims.

All six NATO service members killed Monday in a motorcycle bomb attack in Bagram, Afghanistan, were American, a US military official says.

The United States is losing its influence on the world stage because of the behavior of Washington, says Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist and author.

US House Speaker Paul Ryan has rejected President Obama's opinion that poor communication on the part of his administration are to blame for rising public fears about terrorism.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is pressuring the Obama administration to close a Palestinian office in Washington.

People who reject Syrian refugees are the "best allies" of extremist groups, the UN refugee chief says.

Hillary Clinton will not apologize to Donald Trump for calling him Daesh “best recruiter.”

Burkina Faso issues an arrest warrant for ousted President Blaise Compaoré over murder charges.

Daesh is preventing civilians from leaving the central city of Ramadi ahead of a major Iraqi military offensive.

Muslim leaders in the US unveil initiatives to tackle Islamophobia.

A US judge has scheduled a retrial date after the mistrial of one of the six officers in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.

A former Polish professor is sentenced to 13 years in prison over a plot to detonate parliament.

The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it will not leave Israel’s assassination of Samir Qantar unanswered.