Former minister Hassan Diab looks set to be named Lebanon’s new prime minister on Thursday with backing from the Iran-backed group Hezbollah and its allies, a move that could complicate Lebanon’s efforts to secure badly needed Western financial aid. Lebanon, wrestling with the worst...

Indian authorities cut cellphone access in parts of Delhi Thursday and fresh violence erupted elsewhere, as thousands of protestors nationwide defied bans on assembly in growing anger at a new citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim. Police and demonstrators clashed in Uttar Pradesh state as...

Already hosting 4 million refugees, Turkey is facing a new refugee influx of 50,000 Syrians, the nation’s president said on Thursday.  “Turkey already hosts 4 million [refugees], now another 50,000 are heading to our land from Idlib, [Syria],” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- As a service to its supporters, whose homes have not actually been affected, the regime is using United Nations aid in “damage compensation” and “reconstruction”, leaving the leftovers for the areas that revolted against it, after implementing absurd conditions...