Violence in Hong Kong’s anti-government protests is becoming more serious but the government is confident it can handle the crisis itself, the embattled leader of the former British colony said on Tuesday. Carrie Lam was speaking in public for the first time since demonstrations...

Israel launched an air strike against Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday after militants in the strip fired a mortar round across the border, the army said. Witnesses in the coastal enclave told AFP that fire from an Israeli drone hit Hamas facilities east of Al-Bureij refugee camp. No...

 Arab coalition forces intercepted and downed a Houthi drone launched toward the kingdom from Yemen, state TV and state news agency quoted coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki as saying early on Tuesday. The drone was downed in the Yemeni airspace while Houthi's Al Masirah TV did not...

Airstrikes targeted Syria's last major rebel stronghold in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a woman and her child, opposition activists sad. The attacks come as regime forces turn their focus on another rebel-held town in Idlib,...