AFP, JERUSALEM: A Palestinian teenage girl allegedly tried to stab an Israeli guard at a West Bank settlement on Saturday but was shot dead, police said, in the third settlement attack in a week. “A 13-year-old Palestinian girl with a knife in her hand ran toward the civilian security guard at…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Several members of the US-led coalition attacking the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria are doing “nothing at all” to help destroy the jihadists, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Friday. His comments mark a departure from the Pentagon’s typical depiction…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday hailed a “new chapter” in relations with China after talks with President Xi Jinping, who is touring the region to boost Beijing’s economic influence. The Asian giant and the Middle East’s foremost Shiite power aim to…

AFP, ADDIS ABABA: UN Security Council ambassadors and African Union leaders met Saturday for crisis talks on Burundi, after the government refused a proposed AU force to stem violence in the troubled country. The meeting, in the AU headquarters in Ethiopia, comes a day after the UN envoys met with President…

P, Washington: Errors by three airmen troubleshooting a nuclear missile in its launch silo in 2014 triggered a “mishap” that damaged the missile, prompting the Air Force to strip the airmen of their nuclear certification and quietly launch an accident investigation, officials said Friday.…

AFP, WASHINGTON: A deadly blizzard with bone-chilling winds and potentially record-breaking snowfall slammed the eastern US on Saturday, as officials…