Negotiations held in Cairo to reach a ceasefire in Gaza were on the verge of a "significant breakthrough," two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. There was no immediate comment from ...

An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the USS Harry S. Truman on ...

A rare 1970 audio recording of a conversation between former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has gone viral this week, reigniting debate over Arab unity, the ...

Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal early Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw phone ...

Sudanese paramilitaries executed at least 31 civilians, including children, in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman, local medics said on Sunday. It was "the largest documented mass killing in the ...

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on 7 May to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis's successor. Cardinals ...

The tomb of former Syrian president and longtime dictator Hafez al-Assad in the city of Qardaha, western Syria, has reportedly been exhumed, with his remains moved to an undisclosed location, ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday started its hearings, expected to last five days, centred on Israel's obligations to Palestinians in Gaza amid growing malnutrition, bombardment, and ...

Houthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen said Monday that US strikes targeted a migrant detention centre in the movement's stronghold of Saada, killing at least 68 people. The US military has hammered ...

Worldwide military expenditure saw its steepest rise in 2024 since the end of the Cold War, reaching $2.7 trillion as wars and rising tensions drove up spending, researchers said Monday. Military ...

Israel's siege of Gaza, which has stopped all food from entering the enclave, is being discussed in the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the measures contravening international ...

Two activists disrupted the London Marathon on Sunday morning to draw urgent attention to the unfolding famine and genocide in Gaza, as Israel’s siege pushes the territory deeper into mass starvation.