Asian shares gained on Tuesday, taking heart from Nasdaq's fresh high, while gold prices took back some lost ground after plunging more than 4 percent to five-year lows in the previous session. Financial spreadbetters predicted Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE to open about 12 points...

Athens (AFP) - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to widespread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country's creditors. The bank shutdown since June 29 is...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A former prisoner in Sweida prison spoke about the difficult circumstances and hard conditions prisoners face in their daily life. Prisoners are blackmailed by the prison’s officers and have their money taken away or paying off some of it. Abu...

The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The YPG militia said Islamic State had fired "makeshift chemical...