Smiles, a handshake and what Tunisian President Kais Saied called a "historic meeting" with the long-ostracized Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

An Israeli minister officially tasked with fighting antisemitism defended Twitter CEO Elon Musk, saying that Israel did not view the tech mogul's recent comparison of Jewish financier George Soros to a comic book supervillain as antisemitic.

Iran on Friday executed three men accused of deadly violence during last year's anti-government protests despite objections from human rights groups.

The Mideast-based commanders of the U.S., British and French navies transited the Strait of Hormuz on Friday aboard an American warship, a sign of their unified approach to keep the crucial waterway open after Iran seized two oil tankers.

U.S. military officials are walking back claims that a recent strike in Syria killed an influential al-Qaida figure, following assertions by the dead man’s family that he had no ties to terrorists but was a father of 10 tending to his sheep when he was slain by an American missile.

From the beginning, it was considered a mystery disease due to a lack of records of what every person was exposed to every day, according to University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researcher Dr. Robert Haley. “This is no longer a mystery disease,” he said.

Syrian President Bashar Assad headed to Saudi Arabia on Thursday to attend a regional summit, his first visit to the oil-rich kingdom since Syria's conflict began in 2011, the president's office said.

Thousands of Jewish nationalists, some of them chanting "Death to Arabs" and other racist slogans, paraded on Thursday through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem's Old City, in an annual display that caused new friction between Jews and Palestinians in the tense city.

Pakistani police kept up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside was about to expire on Thursday.

The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem's Old City.

The suit argues Twitter broke the law by letting employees reveal the identities of dissidents posting anonymously to Saudi agents, who then arrested the platform’s users.

The cybersecurity report highlighted the challenges regulators face as artificial intelligence-based facial recognition technologies become increasingly sophisticated and undermine existing legal guardrails.

A prominent Instagram influencer from Ghana has been accused of posing as a U.S. soldier as part of a scheme to bilk elderly Americans out of $2 million, the Justice Department said.

Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the United Nations on Monday to suspend Israel's membership unless it implements resolutions establishing separate Jewish and Arab states and the return of Palestinian refugees.

The White House on Monday said that Russia is looking to buy additional advanced attack drones from Iran for use in the Kremlin's war in Ukraine after using up most of the 400 drones it had previously purchased from Tehran.

Palestinian media said the launch was caused by a technical error as militants were trying to deactivate the rocket. The Israeli military said the rocket landed in an open area of southern Israel and did not immediately respond.

The leader of the insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al Sham, known as HTS, is trying hard to distance his group from its al-Qaida origins, spreading a message of pluralism and religious tolerance.

Bail could calm the protesters in Pakistan, but former Prime Minister Imran Khan could still be rearrested on other charges.