Trailblazing Afghan women's rights campaigner Fawzia Koofi, a member of the Afghan negotiating team that will hold talks with the Taliban, has been wounded in a gun attack near Kabul, officials said Saturday.a Gunmen opened fire on Koofi, 45, and her sister Friday when they were...

Ten days after the deadly Beirut explosion, rescue workers recovered the remains of firefighters killed while battling the initial blaze, as authorities appointed a well-respected judge to lead the investigation. Beirut, brought to its knees by the cataclysmic explosion, has seen the...

Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli is readying its harbor to temporarily replace that of Beirut, which was leveled in last week's massive explosion, officials said Thursday. Tripoli port's capacity is smaller than the capital's, through which the vast majority of Lebanon's food and...

Israel Thursday said it will stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier. Palestinians in Islamist Hamas-ruled Gaza in recent days have launched dozens of helium...