A massive fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi Monday, killing at least 11 people, officials said. More than 50 people suffered injuries in the early morning blaze, which started in the hotel kitchen, police officer Tauqeer Naeem said. The exact cause...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- The extent to which communities in Syria and Iraq that have fallen under ISIL’s influence have changed since the group took control might take a generation to fully comprehend. In much of the expanse that ISIL has controlled or still holds, social change...

Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace towards the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, early on Wednesday, the official Syrian news agency said, in a strike on an unknown target that caused loud explosions. The SANA news agency said the missiles struck the Sabboura town,...

(Eqtsad)- Mariam, 48, detailed difficulties she faced in finding a bed for her husband, Ahmed Wanso, 53, who had been suffering of  'cerebrovascular accident' (CVA), in hospital in a governmental hospital after having a stroke 4 weeks ago, but he is in recovery now. “Although the...