A bipartisan group of senators wrote to the White House on Wednesday invoking the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to demand an investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and possible sanctions against Saudi Arabia.
TEL AVIV – Jordan has refused to negotiate with Israel to renew two annexes to its 1994 peace treaty that saw the Jewish state take out a 25-year lease on two small agricultural areas along the border, the Jordanian Foreign Minister said Monday night.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Monday exposed observation posts along the Lebanese-Israel border being used by the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah under the guise of a tree-planting environmental NGO called “Green Without Borders.”
China’s state-run media attacked the United States on Monday and Tuesday for announcing its intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) between America and the Soviet Union, warning that an end to the 1987 deal may “trigger a global arms race.”
Contents: Trump cancels nuclear proliferation treaty with Russia; China warns that the decision will ’cause many negative effects’
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Security forces of the rival Palestinian governments routinely use torture and arbitrary arrests, among other tactics, to quash dissent by peaceful activists and political rivals, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Missing pro-Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu gave a radio broadcast on Sunday saying he was in Israel, and indicating he owed his survival to the Jewish state.
An Israeli soldier was lightly injured in an apparent stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday morning, the army said.
Prosecutors filed an indictment Monday against a Palestinian teen who stabbed to death an Israeli-American father of four outside a West Bank supermarket last month, the army said.
The leaders of Hamas and Fatah have failed their people and have turned them into “beggars and street vendors who can hardly earn a living,” senior Hamas official Ahmed Yousef said on Monday.
The Council of Europe has asked the Islamist government of Turkey to stop funding Islam overseas for political purposes.
The U.S. Navy confirmed Monday that it sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait earlier in the day, in a move that is likely to irk China.
Scott Horton, managing director of the Libertarian Institute, will speak Tuesday evening in Washington, DC, about his new book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan.
Cardinal Raymond Burke told The Australian Sunday that the Catholic cardinals will have a hard time voting in the next papal conclave because they have had little contact and do not know each other very well.
Boko Haram jihadis reportedly cut men “into pieces” with machetes and set some houses ablaze in weekend attacks that displaced an estimated 1,300 people in Nigeria’s Borno state, the terrorist group’s birthplace and stronghold.
Residents of a disputed district of Kirkuk, a region claimed by Baghdad and northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), are accusing federal police-backed Arab settlers of confiscating Kurdish lands, Rudaw reported Monday.
A North Korean delegation arrived in Beijing on Monday to participate in an international military forum amid ongoing Pyongyang-Washington negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, state-funded South Korean media reports
Cardinal Raymond Burke said that the recent deal between the Vatican and China’s Communist Party was “absolutely unconscionable” in an interview with the Australian on Sunday.
One topic has resonated more than any other at the Vatican’s synod on youth, a report stated Sunday, that of anti-Christian persecution.
China sold North Korea at least $640 million worth of luxury goods in the year 2017 in defiance of international sanctions, a South Korean lawmaker claimed on Monday.
Zheng Xiaosong, head of the Chinese liaison office in semi-autonomous Macau, fell to his death from his apartment building on Saturday. The Chinese government strongly implied he committed suicide because he “suffered from depression.”
The widespread rise of nationalism does not suggest increasing racism or xenophobia, a new report asserts, but simply a healthy reaction against a collectivism that curtails the freedom and creativity of peoples.
President Donald Trump on Saturday indicated the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) due to persistent Russian violations. The Russians responded that American withdrawal would unleash “full chaos in the nuclear weapons sphere,” as parliamentary foreign affairs chief Konstantin Kosachev put it.
Google shut down Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy’s online advertising campaign Saturday, just 48 hours before polls opened.
Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) told an audience at Politicon in Los Angeles on Saturday that he continues to support extremist Linda Sarsour because of her leadership role in organizing the Women’s March last January.
Grace Meng, wife of former Interpol President Meng Hongwei, began issuing a series of interviews last week, and most recently spoke to the Associated Press this weekend, urging the Chinese government to provide more information on her husband’s whereabouts and guarantee both of their safeties since Beijing admitted to arrested him early this month.
Ibrahim Karagül, editor-in-chief of Turkey’s Yeni Safak, a paper enthusiastically supportive of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Saturday called for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to be “dethroned immediately.”
An American brigadier general suffered a gunshot wound during an insider attack last week in the Afghan Taliban birthplace of Kandahar, the United States-NATO mission confirmed Monday.
Senior Venezuelan socialist official Diosdado Cabello claimed in an interview Sunday his country is “fully prepared” for a war with the United States.
The billionaire owner of Amazon and the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, has stated that it “doesn’t make sense” for Amazon to refuse to work with the Department of Defense on military projects.
Multiple Chinese government media outlets used their opinion pages Sunday and Monday to attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for warning Latin American countries to stay away from Beijing’s predatory loan offers, calling American concerns “malicious nonsense.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered remarks Sunday promising that his government would continue to work on expanding rights and freedoms, after a week in which the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has triggered renewed scrutiny of Erdoğan’s ongoing media crackdowns.
CNN on Monday reported it has obtained surveillance footage from Turkish officials that shows a Saudi operative walking around Istanbul wearing slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s clothes and a fake beard.
Japanese officials have reportedly told Facebook to improve its user data protection following Facebook’s most recent user data breaches.
A single Saudi Arabian Twitter employee was able to help the government of Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents, according to a report.
TEL AVIV – Israel on Saturday arrested two senior Palestinian officials suspected of assisting in the abduction of a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, who also carries US citizenship.
