A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...

Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter's Square. Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the...

Iraq exported 3.453 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its southern ports in March, slightly above the February average, the oil ministry said Sunday. Iraq's exports from the ports, managed by the central government in Baghdad, averaged 3.426 million bpd in February, down...

A group of Syrian rebel fighters began Sunday to leave their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to rebel-held Idlib in northwestern Syria, state media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman fighters from besieged Douma, where the dominant rebel group Jaish...