The workers were traveling in the Idlib area when gunmen blocked their path, shot at their convoy, seized them and took them to an unknown location, according to a state news agency report. "An armed terrorist group today kidnapped a number of workers in the mission of the International...

  This year’s  hajj  is likely to be one of the safest in recent years. Saudi Arabia has secured the holy city of Makkah for the arrival of millions of hajjis. The equipment list is vast, the personnel well-trained, and with the installation of 1,166 CCTV cameras...

Lebanon's government is enforcing new rules to limit the flow of Syrian refugees into the country, as the United Nations now registers about 3,000 a day. Yet many of the Syrians in Lebanon are not looking for assistance. Rather, they believe refugee status is a ticket to Europe or the United...

A car bomb exploded in a street lined with shops in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing at least 17 people, police and medics said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack on Saturday, but insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda, have been regaining ground this year, reversing a...