The world's biggest smartphone maker Samsung, assailed by a shambolic recall and embroiled in South Korea's wide-ranging corruption scandal, Friday backed away from a planned corporate restructuring. Following the embarrassing recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and under pressure from...

Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to boycott the upcoming provincial elections, urging instead followers to join a "reform revolution." Al-Sadr spoke to thousands at an anti-government protest Friday in Baghdad, calling for continued peaceful rallies. He...

(New York Times)- Abu Mohammed is bored. He estimates that two years ago he earned more than $800,000 from smuggling thousands of migrants into Turkey from Greece. He rented an office in Aksaray, an area of Istanbul popular with Syrians, to serve as his headquarters. At one point, he had more...

Dozens of residents were buried in collapsed buildings in the Iraqi city of Mosul after an airstrike against ISIS triggered a massive explosion last week and rescuers are still recovering bodies, civil defense agency officials and locals said on Thursday. The exact cause of the collapses was...