Syrian state media said government forces have regained control of a northwestern village, just days after losing it to militants. SANA said troops captured Kafr Nbouda on Sunday from militants, including members of Al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group. Government forces first...

An infant boy has been killed in a fire that broke out in a Syrian refugee settlement in the Zahle town of Ferzol, the state-run National News Agency reported Sunday.

Sudan's main opposition group and supporter of the protest movement Sunday rejected its call to stage a two-day general strike because of a deadlock in talks with the ruling military. "We reject the general strike announced by some opposition groups" in the umbrella protest movement, the...

Violent clashes continued in India on Sunday between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party and a regional party in the politically volatile eastern state of West Bengal, officials said. Rival supporters regularly engaged in pitched battles across the state...