Carthage's place on UNESCO World Heritage list is under threat, due to what the UN cultural body calls "uncontrolled urban sprawl." Residents and civil society activists see government demolitions as discrimination.

British territory decides to lift detention order after formal written assurances from Tehran that the ship would not discharge its 2.1 million barrels of oil in Syria. US State Department responds to the move by saying it would revoke US visas for crew members on the tanker.

Banning members of Congress, even anti-Semitic BDS supporters, from entering the country is a grave mistake that will only help Israel’s foes.

Video footage aired on Israeli television shows two young men approaching a police officer at one of the walled Old City's gates, drawing knives and stabbing him before his colleagues shoot them multiple times. Officer is moderately wounded in the terrorist attack.

Following talks with Lebanese President Saad Hariri in Washington, US Secretary of State Pompeo says right solution to Beirut's maritime border dispute with Israel on gas pipeline will be "greatly beneficial to Lebanon and the greater region."