The Philippines told the US yesterday it was quitting a pact key to their historical military alliance, triggering a six-month countdown to the deal’s…

Human Rights Watch called yesterday for Damascus and the Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria to investigate the fate of thousands of people who went missing in the custody of the Islamic State group. More than 8,000 people, detained by IS when it controlled swathes of the north and east, remain…

ran taunted the United States on the 41st anniversary yesterday of the ouster of its ally the shah, as huge crowds took to the streets to mark the historic…

Turkish troops will continue to respond to Syrian regime attacks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, as the two sides engage in deadly tit-for-tat skirmishes in northern Syria. “The more they attack our soldiers, they will pay a very, very heavy price,” Erdogan told a televised…

Pete Buttigieg likes to remind people that a year ago, all he had when he launched his presidential campaign were four staff, a big idea and an unknown—and…

Dozens of cars in a northern Israeli Arab village were vandalised overnight, police said yesterday, with slogans sprayed on a mosque indicating the involvement of Jewish extremists. The messages “Jews awaken” and “Stop assimilating” were scrawled on a mosque and another building…

The Palestinians have abandoned their request for a vote at the UN Security Council yesterday that they hoped would reject the peace plan of President…

LEBANON PROTESTERS TRY TO BLOCK CONFIDENCE VOTE AFP, Beirut Protesters in Beirut tried to stop a confidence vote in parliament yestreday on a new government they say fails to address their demands and cannot rescue Lebanon’s ailing economy. Security forces used tear gas and water cannon to break…