Residents of Syria's battered city of Aleppo faced worsening food and medical shortages Monday as Syrian and Russian warplanes again pounded rebel-held areas in defiance of international concern. A fresh wave of intensive air strikes hit the city's opposition-controlled east from dawn on...

Eight soldiers and 25 Boko Haram fighters were killed in two separate encounters in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Sunday as government troops intensified operations to clear the insurgency from the region, according to the military. In the first incident, army spokesman Sani Usman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistical studies showed that over 99% of the residents of Palmyra city are displaced after indicating that the population number prior to the displacement and migration was 110,000 people. The statistics, issued by the Center for Studies and Documentation in Palmyra City,...

Governments worldwide should pass new laws to facilitate the sharing of information between themselves and the private sector in order to better combat financial crime, HSBC's top lawyer told a banking conference in Geneva on Monday. "Put simply, the way we do financial crime compliance is...