BEIRUT/JERUSALEM -- Israeli airstrikes hit a building in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, marking the first such attack since a ceasefire was agreed on Nov. 27.

DAMASCUS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Syria's leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday reinstated the post of Grand Mufti and established a new Supreme Fatwa Council, according to a decree released by the Syrian ...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Friday condemned Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day targeting the Lebanese capital Beirut. During a phone conversation with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf ...

BAGHDAD, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Two Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Friday in an airstrike in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said.

"This humanitarian crisis is being driven by violence, by food insecurity, by political instability, by climate shocks, by disease outbreaks as well as the spillover from the conflict in neighboring ...

SANAA, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. military launched 26 fresh airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa and other provinces on Friday evening, killing at least one and injuring three others, Houthi-run al ...

In May 2023, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani underlined the importance of waging "a war on drugs," saying that drug dealing remains a major source of funding for terrorism and that the ...

NUUK, Greenland, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Greenland's political leaders on Friday expressed interest in deepening cooperation with China in areas such as trade, fisheries, and sustainable development ...

Later that day, Vance and his wife Usha, together with U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, arrived in Greenland. Vance delivered a speech at a U.S. military ...

BRUSSELS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission announced on Friday that it will invest 1.3 billion euros (about 1.41 billion U.S. dollars) in digital technologies, including artificial ...

LOS ANGELES, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The United States has reported a total of 483 confirmed measles cases in just three months of 2025, surpassing the total number of infections for all of 2024, ...

At least 144 people were killed and 732 injured in Myanmar after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake jolted the country on Friday, according to Myanmar's State Administration Council. Dujarric said Myanmar's ...