Two sons of Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah have been released from detention at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, days after nearly two dozen other detainees in the kingdom’s 2-month-old anti-corruption campaign were also freed. Saudi Arabia’s attorney general approved the release...

An Israeli military court extended the custody of a Palestinian teenager and her mother on Thursday after a video showing her slap two soldiers went viral and sparked heated debate. Ahed Tamimi, 16, was ordered held until Monday along with her mother Nariman, 43, a military spokeswoman...

Former football star George Weah has won Liberia’s presidential run-off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country’s first democratic transition in over 70 years. With 98.1 percent of the vote counted, Weah led with 61.5 percent to Vice...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday dissolved parliament ahead of an election which is expected to produce a period of instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet began meeting to fix the date of the vote, which...