Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party denied Friday that he had decided to call a snap election, as he battled to keep the government afloat after his defence minister quit over a Gaza ceasefire. Netanyahu’s ruling coalition was left with a single seat majority in parliament after the walkout on Wednesday by Avigdor Lieberman […]

The US will stop the “inflight refuelling” of Saudi-led coalition jets in Yemen amid growing anger over civilian casualties from the kingdom’s air strikes. The decision by Americans to pull out also comes amid outrage by US politicians from both political parties over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate […]

AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar (AP) — An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group targeted a mosque in Syria last week because it was determined to be an insurgent command-and-control center, the U.S. said Sunday.

The coalition of Arab states fighting against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis denounced as inaccurate a report by U.N. human rights expert that said air strikes by the alliance had caused heavy civilian casualties and some may amount to war crimes. “The report did not mention the Iranian role in the continuation of the war in Yemen… […]

Emmanuel Macron is backing a controversial move by Tory and Labour MPs to join forces to counter the risk of Brexit fuelling a rise in UK extremism.

The Saudi led military coalition has claimed ‘again and again’ to have made decisive victories over the past two years, forcing militants to abandon their strongholds in war-torn Yemen.

Imran Khan has won a disputed Pakistan election but has fallen short of an outright majority, according to official results announced Friday that indicate he will need to enter into a coalition to form a government. A jubilant Khan has already declared victory in the pivotal vote, which has drawn allegations of massive vote-rigging in […]

If local election results were replicated in a general election, Labour MPs could oust Tories and form a government in coalition with SNP, according to BBC poll expert John Curtice

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister held emergency negotiations with key coalition partners on Sunday in hopes of averting a crisis that has threatened to plunge the country into early elections.

Members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party have voted to form a coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s block. Two-thirds of Social Democrats backed the deal.