Plain-clothed Tunisian police Saturday broke up a demonstration by LGBT activists in the center of the capital after it was banned "for their own security", the interior ministry said. A call had been made to protest outside the tourism ministry under the hashtag "#Sayebni" ("Let...

A powerful suicide car bombing at the entrance of a government compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and injured some 140 more, according to officials. At around 12.50 p.m. local time (0820GMT), an ambulance packed with explosives was detonated...

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been released from detention, family sources said Saturday, more than two months after he was taken into custody in the kingdom's sweeping crackdown on corruption. His release came hours after he told Reuters in an exclusive...

Eight Iraqis were killed on Saturday, most of them security personnel, in a U.S. air strike that apparently targeted them by mistake, a provincial official said. "Eight people -- a senior intelligence official, five policemen and a woman -- were killed by a U.S. strike on the...