Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. "They've penetrated inside the hotel....

Writing by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- "Time can not be counted in Homs by months, weeks or days, but by the drops of blood, mortar shells. The roar of the airplanes and sound of swords. It is the price a country seeks freedom must pay,” in these words, Homs...

n">More than 500,000 people - a quarter of them children - were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...

At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, five U.S. officials said on Thursday. At least one and possibly more of the attackers was also on a more selective U.S. "no fly list",...