Taliban gunmen killed nine people, including four foreigners, in an attack on a luxury hotel used by U.N. staff and prominent Afghan politicians in Kabul on Thursday night, before being shot dead by security forces, witnesses and police said on Friday. The assault on the heavily...

Syria, Russia and Afghanistan have the largest numbers of people fleeing their homelands to seek asylum, and most are turning to Europe, the United Nations refugee agency said in a report Friday. Syria's 3-year-old civil war generated 56,351 asylum seekers in 2013, more than double the...

The ousted chairman of rebels Joint Chief of Staff, General Salim Idriss revealed to Zaman Alwasl that he wrote his resignation to the fronts’ leaders who went to negotiate with the coalition president Mr. Ahmed al-Jarba, to end the crisis that followed Idris’s dismissal....

Lebanon's parliament gave a newly-formed cabinet a vote of confidence on Thursday, ending almost a year of political deadlock during which the country has been pulled further into the civil war in neighboring  Syria . The approval - by 96 of the 101 parliamentarians who...