British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong, after Chinese state media blamed “Western ideologues” for fomenting unrest in the former British colony. Hundreds of protesters broke into the Hong Kong legislature on Monday...

A rigged motorcycle exploded in Syria’s Sweida city, which the government controls, killing three people and injuring seven others on Wednesday night, an official there said. “The situation is stable after the incident, and life is going on as normal,” Amer al-Eshi, the governor of...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday failed to condemn a recent airstrike in Libya because the U.S. would not support the statement's text, according to multiple reports. The council met behind closed doors for two hours to discuss the attack, which took place Tuesday, on a migrant...

Human Rights Watch slammed Iraq's prison authorities Thursday for detaining several thousand men, women and children in overcrowded and "degrading" conditions that amount to ill treatment. The rights group said it had acquired photographs from Tal Keif prison in Ninevah province that...