International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday she does not yet have reason to see a breakthrough in negotiations with Lebanon to help resolve the country's economic crisis. Georgieva told a Reuters Newsmaker webcast event that IMF officials continue to work...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 50 prisoners from southern Daraa province were released due to a special amnesty by Bashar al-Assad, a local rights group said Friday. Assad's move came to ease tensions amid a hike in skirmishes over past months in the cradle of the Syrian revolution....

The unexplained death of a fugitive Iranian judge, who plunged from a top floor of his hotel in Bucharest last week, has infuriated activists who say a rare chance has been missed to bring a senior Iranian official to justice over alleged rights violations. Gholamreza Mansouri's body was...

Russia has quit a United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, according to a UN note to aid groups seen Thursday. The Russian move comes after an internal UN inquiry in April found it was "highly...