The Trump administration has proposed a new, more expansive minerals deal with Ukraine, according to three people familiar with the ongoing negotiations and a summary of a draft proposal obtained by ...

Just a few years after Indiana Jones whipped his way to the Ark of the Covenant in Steve Spielberg's 1981 smash hit movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were looking ...

Iran has sent a response to a letter from US President Donald Trump that called for nuclear talks and warned of possible military action if it refuses, its foreign minister said Thursday. "This ...

The trial of Mohammad Ayyad, who is accused alongside others of involvement in the killing of Irish soldier Seán Rooney and the attempted murder of three of his colleagues, will continue in a new ...

Israel’s new ambassador to Egypt, Orie Rothman, was disinvited from a diplomatic ceremony at Cairo’s Ittihadiya Palace earlier this week, where President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi accepted the credentials ...

The Islamic calendar is based on lunar phases, unlike the Gregorian calendar which follows the movement of the earth around the sun. For this reason, the beginning and end of each of the Islamic ...

A fragile peace deal in South Sudan was collapsing on Thursday after the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, threatened to throw the country back into ...

Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Thursday that two people were killed in overnight air strikes near Sanaa that they blamed on the United States. The Houthis' Al-Masirah TV channel reported nearly 20 ...

Six tourists died on Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off the resort of Hurghada on Egypt's Red Sea coast, state media reported. The website of the state-owned Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper said the ...

Turkish authorities deported a BBC News correspondent on Thursday after detaining him for 17 hours and branding him a "threat to public order". Mark Lowen had been in Turkey to cover mass street ...

The German and Austrian interior ministers broke off a planned trip to Syria on Thursday because of a possible threat to their delegation, German authorities said. Germany's Nancy Faeser had planned ...

The US Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has revealed an eyebrow-raising tattoo written in Arabic which reads "Kafir," a term translated as non-believer in God or infidel. Images circulated online of ...