The UN Security Council on Wednesday roundly rejected Washington’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Syria called for an emergency meeting of the council following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision Monday to unilaterally recognize Israel’s claim to the territory. All members of the council except the U.S. harshly condemned the

Algeria’s army chief of staff Ahmed Gaed Salah has called for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit to hold rule the North African state. The move follows months of protests calling for the president to step down from his 20-year rule of the nation. In a televised broadcast on Tuesday, Lt Gen Gaed Salah

Photo Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “it’s not about the Benjamins” as he hit back on Tuesday against any suggestion that U.S. politicians are paid to support Israel. A tweet in February by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a freshman legislator from Minnesota, was widely seen as echoing an anti-Semitic slur that Jews influence

Photo (AP) The Latest on migrants trying to get to Europe (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Spanish police say they have arrested 17 members of an alleged human trafficking network that threatened Moroccan migrants who sought a refund when attempts to reach Europe by sea failed. The National Police said Tuesday the busted cell operated

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and deployed extra troops to the border on Monday in response to the longest-range Hamas rocket attack to cause casualties in years. After a day of intense cross-border fighting, Palestinian officials said Egypt had mediated a ceasefire, though the frontier did not

The State Department’s inaction is enabling terrorist groups to expand there, a threat also to the remaining oases of security in the Horn of Africa. On December 13, 2018, national-security adviser John Bolton, in a speech at the Heritage Foundation, unveiled the Trump administration’s Africa strategy, key components of which were, first, advancing trade ties

Photo Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to the United States on Monday and the military said it dispatched reinforcements to the Gaza border after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people. Netanyahu threatened a forceful response to the long-range strike amid accusations from opponents in a closely contested

On Jan. 15, 2019, al-Shabaab gunmen flooded into Nairobi’s DusitD2 hotel complex and opened fire, killing 21 people including an American citizen. Investigations uncovered a pattern familiar in Kenya: The militants were linked to the Dadaab refugee camp, a sprawling complex sheltering over 400,000 Somali refugees, long antagonized by the Kenyan government and subject to

Gregory Dow and his wife Mary Rose. Mr Dow served time for sex-related crimes in the US before travelling to Kenya where he started a children’s home in Bomet County. The Federal Bureau of Investigations has launched a probe into reports that an American couple running a charity in Kenya abused children. The investigations are

The Saudi-led military coalition mounted raids on sites of the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Saudi news agency SPA said on Saturday. Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the raids targeted two caves used by Houthi forces to store drones, SPA reported. Earlier, Al-Arabiya TV reported raids on Houthi camps in Sanaa, including