(The Daily Star)- The United Nations is investigating claims that up to 32 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the volatile Afghan province of Kunduz last week, calling any loss of civilian life "unacceptable." The strike early last Thursday triggered angry protests in Kunduz, with...

Floods have killed 15 people in central Vietnam after a week of torrential rains. Downpours across 10 provinces have submerged 41,000 houses and 12,000 hectares of farmland, the government’s Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention reported Monday. Six people are also...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Electricity blackout continues in the city of Latakia and most of the cities and countryside of Latakia province since Friday evening, following the Syrian resistance targeting the Mahardah power station which provides the province with electricity.  The activist...

(Carnegie Endowment)- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two previously staunch allies, have recently soured. This can be attributed to Egypt’s inability to perform its role as a guarantor of regional Gulf security against growing Iranian hegemony and its desire to cultivate other, less...