The top U.N. official for Libya said Wednesday there are at least 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries in the war-torn nation, and warned of a “serious crisis” as weapons continue pouring into the North African country. “That is a shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty...

Lebanon will not have enough hospital beds to cope with increasing COVID-19 cases, the health minister in the caretaker government warned on Thursday, saying compliance with a two-week lockdown that ended this week had been patchy. In a Tweet, Hamad Hasan said cases were on the rise and...

Japanese prosecutors are seeking to question former prime minister Shinzo Abe over a scandal involving the cost of events held for his supporters, local media said Thursday. Under Japanese law, spending on political events must be reported, but prosecutors allege that Abe's office failed to...

All armed elements have left the Sinjar district in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the country's Joint Operations Command claimed on Thursday. "According to the agreement between the central government and the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government [KRG], the federal forces are responsible...