Until a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia was riding high. Its regional policies, based on countering revolutionary fervour and containing Iran, appeared to be bearing fruit. Egypt’s army ousted the Islamist president, to plaudits and generous funding from Riyadh; the Syrian...

Ikea, known for its affordable flatpack furniture, is moving into new territory: refugee housing. The Swedish retailer has teamed up with the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) to develop a   flatpack shelter   that can be quickly assembled on site. Recently...

U.S. forces have arrested Libyan al-Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi on Saturday, following a military raid in the streets of Tripoli. Libi was allegedly involved in the 1988 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which left more than 200 people dead. He was on the FBI’s...

Members of the team from the UN and the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "have left for a site where they are beginning verification and destruction." A team of disarmament inspectors began the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons and...