(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 23 regime troops, including elite forces, were killed late on Saturday in a surprise attack by the armed opposition on the newly-captured town of Jarjanaz, pro-regime news feeds said. The attack followed heavy rocket fire on regime forces and allied...

More than 1,000 people rallied in the rain in a park in Hong Kong’s financial district on Sunday, chanting slogans for democracy as they huddled under a sea of umbrellas. The crowd, a mix of young and elderly people, wore black and turquoise surgical masks to hide their identities as they...

Iraqi anti-government protesters blockaded an oil field and rallied in southern cities Sunday while political factions remained paralysed in their attempts to form a new government. Several hundred people demanding jobs shut off access to the Nassiriya field, 300 kilometres (190 miles)...

An attacker stabbed five people late on Saturday at a Hasidic rabbi's home in New York state before fleeing, a Jewish organization said, a rampage that came after days of increased tensions over anti-Semitic assaults. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) said on Twitter an...