French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema was placed under formal judicial investigation Thursday in connection with an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow-France soccer international Mathieu Valbuena with the use of a sex video. A statement from the public prosecutor in Versailles west of...

Greece  relocated six asylum-seeking families to Luxembourg on Wednesday, the first such transfer from its soil under an European Union plan to ease the burden on nations inundated by an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Smiling parents holding young children posed for...

Mahmoud Bakeer speaks with despair about the night of the flash flood, when he screamed at his wife and five children to flee their home on Gaza's border with Egypt as the water rushed in. They made it to safety during the flooding last week, but a network of Palestinian tunnels running...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- In spite of the fact that Sweida city, the Druze majority's stronghold south Syria, has not deeply engaged in the revolution yet, many changes took place in the city and many taboos were broken especially the freedom to put most old and traditional...