Iraq's rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government on Monday, after the previous cabinet was brought down by a two-month protest movement demanding more deep-rooted change. After just over a year in power, premier Adel Abdel Mahdi stepped down last week after a dramatic...

Thirteen Pakistanis, including eight children, died when a fire swept through their makeshift dwellings on a farming estate in the Jordan Valley, Jordan's civil defence said Monday. There were three other injuries in the fire that broke out after midnight that initial signs showed could...

At least seven people were wounded in separate car bomb attacks in northern Syria on Thursday.  According to Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground, the attacks targeted the district centers of al-Bab and Afrin, injuring five people. The security forces suspect the attacks were...

Frontline state Greece is feeling the strain of hosting thousands of migrants in camps and Europe must come up with a policy to ease the crisis, the United Nations senior refugee official said Thursday. Conditions in the huge open-air camp on the island of Lesbos were "extremely...