Category: 3. Middle East

By Timour Azhari

RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia plans imminently to boost commercial ties with Lebanon after Lebanese authorities demonstrated “efficacy” in curbing drug smuggling to the kingdom over the past months, a senior Saudi official said…

Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is at its highest level on record, according to the UN. Settlers are destroying mosques, dairy facilities, and attacking olive farmers in hundreds of attacks that…

Officials have recovered the remains of all 20 people who were killed when a Turkish C-130 cargo plane crashed near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border Tuesday.

The cuts could impact 15,000 employees, or 15 percent of the workforce, as soon as next week.

Verizon is planning to cut about 15,000 jobs in the telecommunications…

Lawyers for James Comey and Letitia James have asked a federal judge to dismiss the criminal cases filed against them, claiming the administration of President Donald Trump illegally installed the prosecutor who brought the charges.

On Thursday,…

Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated them, desperate to escape the Sudanese city now overrun by paramilitary forces.

Several gave harrowing accounts to AFP,…

Parisians marked ten years since the deadly November 2015 attacks that upended French society, reflecting on the 132 people lost.

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada’s domestic spy agency this year foiled potentially lethal threats by Iran directed against people whom Tehran sees as enemies, the agency’s head said in a rare speech on Thursday.

Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian…

The announcement comes after President Petro said Colombia would stop working with US over strikes on alleged drug boats.

Officials in Colombia say the country will continue to share intelligence with international agencies combatting drug…