Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The Latest: Turkish police arrest 6 for social media insults

The Latest on Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday (all times local): 10:25 a.m. Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have arrested six people for...

Russia says ready to work with anti-ISIS coalition if it respects Syrian government

Russia is ready to work with the Western coalition fighting the Islamic State group if its members respect Syria's sovereignty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...

Yemen PM, president in Saudi to discuss differences

Yemen's premier was in Riyadh on Monday to meet President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition backing their administration as reports emerged of...

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agree to delay filling dam

Cairo (AFP) - Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed that Addis Ababa will delay filling a mega-dam as part of a comprehensive deal on...

Saudi-led forces advance towards Yemen's besieged Taez

Saudi-led coalition forces advanced on Monday towards Yemen's third city Taez after sending major reinforcements in a bid to break a months-long siege by...

Iraq considers a larger role for NATO role to replace US-led coalition

After an American drone strike on Baghdad which killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and a top Iraqi commander. Iraq's parliament swiftly voted in favor of...

Iraqi doctor bets on plasma treatment in search of COVID breakthrough

In a hospital ward in Iraq, doctor Ali Salam Abdullah and a smiling patient hold up a large blood bag full of the yellow...

Israel to pay damages to family of killed Eritrean man

Israel will compensate the family of an Eritrean who died after being shot, then beaten by a mob, after being mistaken for someone who...

Shelling from Yemen kills 3 along Saudi border

Shelling from Yemen has killed a border guard trooper and two residents in Saudi Arabia’s border region, officials said, in the deadliest barrages in...

Arab League denounces Turkish troop deployment in Iraq

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi condemned on Thursday a Turkish military deployment in Iraq as a violation of international law, at a meeting called...

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