Sudan's deposed military leader Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for 30 years, arrived in court Monday in Khartoum for the start of his trial on corruption charges. The trial comes as a sovereign council was being formed, following Saturday's signing of a transitional constitution by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- War, with all its cruelty and ugliness, could not steal the beauty, innocence and wonder of the six-year-old girl, Sana'a, despite suffering a life of poverty and asylum. Her photos spread on social media and the world's leading magazines and newspapers in less than two days....

At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday. The fire broke out at in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire...

Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians including 11 children in rebel-held northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive, a war monitor and local activists said on Saturday. An air strike in the village of Deir killed seven people,...