Middle East
Syrian rebels say U.S. troops remain in key garrison near Iraq
U.S. troops have not left the strategic Tanf garrison on the Iraq-Jordan border following President Donald Trump\'s decision to pull out of ...Turkey says nearly 300,000 Syrians return home after military operations
Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after Turkey\'s two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted ...Abbas says he will dissolve Palestinian parliament
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Saturday he intended to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament controlled by his rivals Hamas following a ...Yemenis fear collapse of UN-backed ceasefire accord
Residents of Yemen\'s flashpoint port of Hodeida and other cities fear a UN-brokered ceasefire could collapse at any moment, saying that after ...Yemen warring parties agree to swap hundreds of prisoners
Yemen\'s Saudi-backed government and the Huthi rebels have agreed to exchange hundreds of prisoners ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden.85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen
A leading international aid group said Wednesday that an estimated 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 may have died of ...Deadly Israeli Gaza operation threatens to derail truce efforts
A clash that erupted during an Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza Strip and killed eight people threatened Monday to derail ...Saudi Arabia says journalist Khashoggi died after fight in consulate
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday preliminary results of investigations showed U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after ...Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2018 for combating sexual violence
Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights ...Israel, Russia to improve Syria hotline after plane downed
An Israeli military official says its "deconfliction line" with Russia for their air forces in Syria will be improved after a Russian ...




