Lebanese veteran politician Saad al-Hariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the country’s worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war. After his nomination, Hariri said he would quickly form a cabinet of specialists to...

A Syrian suspected of killing a tourist in the German city of Dresden early this month had been classified as a radical Islamist and was under observation on the day of the attack, security officials said on Thursday. The 20-year-old man had been categorised in 2017 as likely to pose a...

A leading international human rights group Thursday condemned Egypt's execution of 49 people so far this month - some arrested during a deadly crackdown on a mass protest in 2013 - and urged authorities in Cairo to grant fair retrials to those on the death row. Between Oct. 3 and 13, Egypt...

The investigation into the murder in France of a teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turned to Syria Thursday, where the killer had a Islamist militant contact, a source close to the case said. Seven people have been charged with being complicit in a "terrorist...