The overpowering stench of the rubbish piling up in Lebanon's streets has become a potent symbol of the political rot protesters blame not only for the garbage crisis but a gridlocked sectarian power system unable to meet citizens’ most basic needs, from electricity to water, health to...

Bahrain has detained a former member of parliament on charges of financing militants, state news agency BNA said late on Sunday, the latest in a series of arrests of opposition figures. The agency did not name the man but quoted the director of criminal investigations as saying...

Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin...

Two passenger trains derailed after flash floods struck a bridge they were crossing in central India , killing at least 27 people in the latest deadly accident on the nation's crumbling rail network, officials said. Rescuers searched through the night for passengers trapped in the trains...