Two diplomatic sources told AFP on Thursday that the security posture at Qatar's Al-Udeid Airbase had been lowered after a...
Palestinian vice president Hussein al-Sheikh met on Friday with former UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, who is expected to...
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistani and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar Saturday to seek a path back to...Kabul accused Islamabad of violating the 48-hour ceasefire, which had paused nearly a week of cross-border clashes that killed dozens of troops and civilians on both sides
The latest strikes targeted what Pakistan security sources said was a militant group linked to the Pakistani Taliban in the Afghan border areas
- Trump said as recently as last month that he believed Ukraine could take back all its territory -- but a...
Trump said as recently as last month that he believed Ukraine could take back all its territory -- but a day after agreeing to meet Russian President Putin for a new summit
"It's good that President Trump didn't say 'no,' but for today, (he) didn't say 'yes'" to providing Kyiv with Tomahawks, Zelensky told US broadcaster NBC on Friday
- Responding to a call from Hamas for help locating the bodies of the 19 hostages, buried under the rubble alongside...
A Turkish official told AFP on Friday that dozens of disaster response specialists were at the Egyptian side of the border awaiting a green light from the Israeli government.
The 81-member team from Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is equipped with specialized search-and-rescue tools.
Washington, United States -- OpenAI has suspended its Sora 2 artificial intelligence tool from creating videos of civil rights icon...The slain civil rights leader's estate and OpenAI said the company would pause generations depicting King while it "strengthens guardrails for historical figures."
Videos reanimating other dead figures including Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse have flooded social media since Sora 2's launch on September 30.
In his latest abrupt pivot on Russia's 2022 invasion, Trump said he expected to meet Putin in Budapest within the...In his latest abrupt pivot on Russia's 2022 invasion, Trump said he expected to meet Putin in Budapest within the next two weeks for what would be their second summit
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted that the threat of Tomahawks had pushed Moscow to negotiate, even as he deals with yet another Trump shift on the war
- Turkey has deployed dozens of disaster relief specialists to help search for bodies under the mountains of rubble in Gaza,...
Trump characterised the killings as a breach of the ceasefire deal he spearheaded, under which the Palestinian militant group returned its last 20 surviving hostages to Israel
The Palestinian militants stressed their "commitment" to the ceasefire deal with Israel, and that they want to return all the remaining bodies of hostages left in Gaza
- Donald Trump held a crucial phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin Thursday, a day before Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky meets...
"I am speaking to President Putin now," Trump said on his Truth Social network. "The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy one, and I will report the contents."
The call comes as Trump shows mounting frustration over the Kremlin leader's refusal to end the 2022 invasion of Ukraine despite their recent summit in Alaska
The Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity, held jointly with the Global Future Councils, focused on strengthening global cooperation to enhance digital...It convened over 500 experts from government, business, civil society and media, together with 150 of the world’s foremost cybersecurity leaders.
Participants identified key innovations, policies and business models that could drive meaningful and sustainable economic growth.
- A 48-hour ceasefire between Afghanistan and Pakistan took hold late Wednesday, officials on both sides said, after dozens of troops...
The truce began at 6:00 pm Islamabad time (1300 GMT), shortly after being announced by both countries, each asserting the other had requested it to end the surge in violence
"During this period, both sides will sincerely strive to find a positive solution to this complex but resolvable issue through dialogue," the Pakistani foreign ministry said
- The statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz's office came after Hamas handed over the remains of two more deceased hostages,...
The statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz's office came after Hamas handed over two more deceased hostages, and said it would be unable to retrieve any more bodies
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has threatened to cut off desperately needed aid supplies to Gaza if Hamas fails to return the remains of all soldiers
