Some internet users in Sudan were back online Tuesday after a court ordered telecoms companies to end a weeks-long blackout ordered by the authorities to contain political protests. Sudan's military rulers said they sought the internet blackout because of security concerns, after...

At 2 am one Saturday night, Syrian brothers Mustafa and Ahmed were at home hunched over a screen watching live black and white security camera footage of men destroying their clothes shop. They watched as a small group of Turkish men broke their glass storefront, ripped up Arabic leaflets...

At least three people were killed and four wounded when three mortar bombs hit the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat on Tuesday, police officials and hospital sources said. Police officials in the area said Islamic State militants were involved in the attack and the mortars were fired from a...

Attempting to evade accountability, the regime of Bashar al-Assad has dismissed Syrian security intelligence chiefs accused of war crimes and replaced them with “clean figures,” according to local sources. The officials of the regime, known as perpetrators of war crimes including the...