Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of the late Iranian president has criticised her country's intervention in Syria, saying it left 500,000 Syrians dead. In an interview with the Iranian Ensaf News, Faezeh explained that her father, who was the president of Iran from 1989 to 1997,...

Syria’s petroleum ministry on Sunday blamed U.S. sanctions for forcing it to cut by up to 24% its distribution of fuel and diesel because of delays in arrival of needed supplies. The war-ravaged nation already is facing a severe economic crisis that has caused major shortages in wheat...

Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan Sunday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the...

MADRID (AP) — A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday. The bodies...