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Lebanon's Cabinet on Friday approved an agreement to transfer Syrian prisoners serving their sentences in Lebanon back to their home country.

Iran is ready for dialogue to resolve tensions with the United States but that there are no concrete plans for talks with Washington, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday, even as Tehran faces the threat of U.S. military action in response to ...

The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Iranian officials involved with security forces who cracked down on mass protests in the Islamic republic.

The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday against Iran's interior minister, accusing Eskandar Momeni of repressing nationwide protests that have challenged Tehran's theocratic government. The penalties are the latest by the United States and ...

Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican's doctrine office on Thursday to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases, confirming a calibrated approach to dealing with a scandal that has tarnished the Catholic Church's credibility ...

The European Union has designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, putting Tehran's most powerful military branch on the same footing as the Islamic State and al Qaeda.

The Islamic State extremist group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack in Niger on an air force base in the capital that wounded four soldiers and damaged an aircraft.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not recognize the recently held elections in Myanmar, the first since the army seized power in 2021, the Philippine foreign secretary said Thursday.

Colombian airline company Satena said Thursday it had not received any prior warning of adverse weather conditions that would have prevented the flight of a plane that crashed and killed 15 people, but that it is awaiting the results of a formal ...

Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.