Gaza City, Palestinian Territories | AFP | Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Friday denounced planned Israeli legislation that would quieten mosques, warning such a law would face stiff...

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories | AFP | US President Donald Trump has invited Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to visit the White House "soon", the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said on...

Doha, Qatar | AFP | Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its expanding suburbs. But whether car-mad Qataris will actually...

Nicosia, Cyprus | AFP | Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday accused the Greek Cypriot government of adopting an "aggressive attitude" which he said is undermining UN-backed peace...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories | AFP | A Gaza-based NGO on Thursday accused the security services of the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers of preventing it from seeing prisoners on hunger...

Mosul, Iraq | AFP | Iraqi forces advanced on the Islamic State group in west Mosul on Thursday as the United States nearly doubled its troops to help defeat the jihadists in their Syrian stronghold...

Washington, United States | AFP | The first public hearing into Russian interference in the US election will take place on March 20, with top intelligence officials invited to take the stand in...

Mexico City, Mexico | AFP | Mexico has objected to the United States about a potential plan to separate immigrant children from their parents if they try to illegally enter the US, an official said...

In order for Nazi Germany to control occupied France in World War II, it formed a puppet French government to convince the world of its legitimacy. This is what the Syrian regime does. When it...