Unidentified armed gunmen fired at several police patrols in drive-by shootings in the southern Jordanian city of Karak with reports of several casualties, security sources said. They said the attackers were being pursued in an ancient castle in the mountainous city where some of the...

(CNN)- According to the UN, more than 400,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. Thousands of these victims have included women and children caught in the crossfire In the most recent horrific scenes, children were said to have been burned alive as the Syrian government...

Richard Bunce says he felt sick when voters decided to take Britain out of the European Union in June, forcing him into a emergency review of his firm's expansion plans. But six months on, orders are strong and a new growth plan is in place, according to Bunce, managing director of Mec Com...

The UN Security Council was to vote Sunday on sending observers to Aleppo, as trapped civilians and rebels waited desperately for evacuations to resume from an opposition-held enclave in the flashpoint Syrian city. A rebel representative told AFP an agreement had been reached to allow more...