Several protests erutped across Iranian cities on Saturday, with many protesters blocking main roads with their cars and burning tires while chanting “Death to the dictator,” a day after the... Read more

A convoy of buses carrying minority Muslim voters in northern Sri Lanka was attacked by gunfire and stones and blocked by burning tires hours before polls opened Saturday in presidential ele... Read more

Joachim Veliocas On Nov. 9, the Paris Court of Appeal sentenced Khasnbek Torkayev, a Chechen national with French citizenship in 2008, to 10 years in prison. Khasnbek, the son of a former Ch... Read more

Iraq’s most influential Shiite religious leader called Friday for a new election law that would restore public confidence in the system and give voters the opportunity to bring “new faces” t... Read more

Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks broadcast Friday that the American presence in Syria will lead to armed “resistance” that will eventually force the U.S. troops to leave his cou... Read more

Over 11 million people across Syria need aid — more than half the country’s estimated population — and the U.N. and other organizations are reaching an average of 5.6 million people a month,... Read more

People who knew the 16-year-old boy suspected of killing two students in a burst of gunfire at a high school outside Los Angeles described him as a quiet, smart kid who they’d never expect t... Read more

A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school Thursday, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head on... Read more

Two Italian police officers have been sentenced to 12 years in jail over the fatal beating of a 31-year-old man in custody in 2009, in a case that has gripped the country. Alessio di Bernard... Read more

Bolivia’s controversial new interim president has unveiled a new cabinet which critics say could further increase polarization in the country still deeply split over the ousting of her prede... Read more

A judge sided with the Trump administration on Thursday in ruling that an Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State group was not a US citizen, leaving the 25-year-old and her son in limbo... Read more

The Labour Party says it will save families an average of £30 a month on bills by rolling out free full fibre broadband. Mr Johnson has been taking questions from the public on Radio Five Li... Read more

The Metropolitan police are investigating an incident in which Hong Kong’s justice minister, Teresa Cheng, fell to the ground after being surrounded by angry pro-democracy protesters outside... Read more

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Washington on Wednesday made no real progress on US-Turkey relations and was a slap in the face to congressional lawmakers critical of the v... Read more

Noura Bendary The death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has raised a number of questions about the future of the terrorist organization after it appointed a new leader. The Global Coalit... Read more