The statue of Vladimir Lenin in Sloviansk has seen its last sunrise. In a belated act to overcome its Soviet past and warn the Kremlin not to retake the Donetsk Oblast city, which Ukrainian forces liberated a year ago, the city administration carefully dismantled the statute on the central square on June 3. The monument is now up for sale to the highest bidder. The money will go to rebuilding homes damaged by Russia's war against Ukraine, Deputy Mayor Andrey Belozerov said.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged new accusations Thursday amid signs a large-scale offensive by separatists was mounting in eastern Ukraine.

arrested two senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders, officials said Tuesday, increasing pressure on the Islamist group at a time when its ranks are divided over whether to pursue a course of direct violent confrontation with the government in response to a nearly 2-year-old heavy crackdown.

The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in charge of U.S. Foreign Military Sales deals, said the government in Cairo has asked Washington for a border security mobile surveillance sensor security system and associated equipment, parts and logistical support.

In an unusual daytime attack near Egypt’s most visible tourist attraction, gunmen shot and killed two police officers on Wednesday, a few hundred yards from the pyramids of Giza, security officials said.

The development is not the first time that water has been used as a weapon in Mideast conflicts and in Iraq in particular. Earlier this year, the Islamic State group reduced the flow through a lock outside the militant-held town of Fallujah, also in Anbar province. But the extremists soon reopened it after criticism from residents.

Days after seizing the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, Islamic State militants blew up the notorious Tadmur Prison there, long used by the Syrian government to detain and torture political prisoners.

ISIS has closed off a dam to the north of the Iraqi city of Ramadi -- seized by its forces last month -- cutting water supplies to pro-government towns downstream and making it easier for its fighters to attack forces loyal to Baghdad, local officials and residents said.

China is destined to intervene in the conflict between Israel and Palestine

Palestinians can play a crucial role in ending the decades-long conflict with Israel by keeping up the pressure and using their collective power like the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, says Palestine's leading writer Raja Shehadeh.

With a weak Palestinian leader and an Israeli prime minister who has rejected peace, the Obama administration might prefer a disengagement doctrine.

The truth however is, the US has facilitated an environment in which the Israeli government does not see an incentive to find a just peace, but is content to keep building settlements, and brutally beating back Hamas, and Palestinian civilians who stand in the way.

Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said Thursday that there were no secret or public negotiations taking place between the Palestinians and Israel.

Turkey commemorates 562nd anniversary of Istanbul's conquest by the Ottoman Empire in a massive ceremony in Istanbul's Yenikapı district public arena on Saturday afternoo

The Federal Senate of Brazil on Wednesday approved on a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide. The Resolution No. 550/2015 was introduced by Senators Aloizio Nunes Fereira Filio and Jose Serra.

Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party to seek Armenian Genocide recognition

Rwanda has placed an indefinite suspension on BBC broadcasts in the county’s most common language in the wake of the row over a documentary on its 1994 genocide.

Kigali - Rwanda's High Court sentenced a former high-ranking politician and businessman on Friday to 30 years in jail for involvement in the 1994 genocide in which 800 000 minority Tutsi and politically moderate Hutus died.

Ilibagiza was born and raised in Rwanda, surrounded by a loving family strengthened by their Catholic faith. But when she was 22 Immaculée 's life changed forever — she, her family, friends and neighbors fell victim to the Rwandan Genocide, a horrendous mass slaughtering of the Tutsi people of Rwanda. 

Deniz, a student at Galatasaray University, usually supports the secularist Republican People's Party, formed by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. “This year I’m voting strategically to keep HDP above the threshold,” he says.