Syrian security forces stormed the rundown Damascus suburb in late August, toting guns, swords and eviction orders. In their wake, they left the district's homes spray-painted with big black "X"s and "O"s: marking who could stay and who must go.
President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio will fly to Israel this weekend amid tensions among fellow U.S. allies in the Middle East over Israel's strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Egypt and Tunisia have signed eight memoranda of understanding (MoUs) spanning multiple sectors, in a move designed to strengthen bilateral cooperation and deepen longstanding ties between the two North African nations.
The State of Qatar and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan have dispatched a new humanitarian aid shipment to Syria.
President Donald Trump planned to meet the Qatari prime minister in New York on Friday, a White House official said, days after U.S. ally Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha.
Repression in North Korea has deepened across many areas, with heightened surveillance, expanded use of forced labour and more frequent executions, making it the most restrictive country in the world, a U.N. human rights report said on Friday.
The United Arab Emirates summoned the Israeli ambassador on Friday over Israel's attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, Israeli broadcaster KAN reported, in another sign of strain between the two countries with close economic and defence ties.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Friday hailed the prospect of the United Nations adopting a resolution condemning Hamas, describing it as a turning point in the group’s international isolation.
More than a dozen long-range kamikaze drones seen near an airport controlled by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces during a major air assault on army territory in May indicate the paramilitaries have new weapons that could alter the course of the war.
Turkey's main opposition party has seen hundreds of its members arrested in a nearly year-long legal onslaught that will reach a critical point on Monday when a court decides whether to annul the party's last congress and unseat its leader.
A Turkish court will decide on Monday whether to oust the head of the main opposition, in what some see as a test of the country's shaky balance between democracy and autocracy after a nearly year-long legal crackdown on the party.
The United Nations Security Council on Thursday condemned recent strikes on Qatar's capital Doha, but did not mention Israel in the statement agreed to by all 15 members, including Israel's ally the United States.
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