3+ hour, 32+ min ago   (500+ words) WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump on Sunday thanked Morocco's King Mohammed VI after the North African kingdom named the new Tiznit-Dakhla expressway after him, in a symbolic gesture highlighting increasingly close ties between Rabat and Washington as the two countries…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (670+ words) DUBAI/WASHINGTON – Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States does the same, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday. The development comes as the United States pressed pause on its bombing campaign after President Donald…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (760+ words) QUSRA, West Bank – Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials said. The attacks followed an incident on Friday when four Palestinians and…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (425+ words) N'DJAMENA – Deputy Commander of the eastern-based Libyan National Army Saddam Haftar and Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno reviewed joint border security operations on Sunday as both sides sought to strengthen efforts against armed groups, illegal migration and organised crime…...

4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (393+ words) DUBAI – Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is not communicating with "any party or any person" for unspecified reasons, his father-in-law said on Sunday, in the first public acknowledgement by a figure close to Iran's ruling circle that the country's new…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago   (696+ words) BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi said the government was moving ahead with a plan to place all weapons under state authority, saying the disarmament of Hezbollah was its “highest priority” as new security arrangements began taking shape in southern…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago   (394+ words) JERUSALEM – Israel will allow a multinational security force to enter Gaza as proposed under US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for the enclave, an Israeli official said on Sunday, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington. Netanyahu’s…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (201+ words) TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday a Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel “cannot go unanswered.” Iran said the attack in the Caspian Sea resulted in an explosion that killed one sailor and injured another. Lavrov…...

18+ hour, 29+ min ago   (785+ words) WASHINGTON/ATHENS – Signs of the Iran war’s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in US strikes, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting an Iranian vessel in…...

16+ hour, 5+ min ago   (717+ words) WASHINGTON – The United States is preparing to restore a direct diplomatic presence in Libya for the first time in 14 years, marking a shift in Washington’s approach towards the country as competition for influence in North Africa and the Mediterranean intensifies....