Sudanese military officials said Sunday that troops were attempting to remove "drug dealers and other criminals" from an area located near a protest sit-in in the capital, Khartoum. This comes a day after a Sudanese medical union said one person was shot dead by security forces in the same...

The Taliban's leader said Saturday the insurgents will not call a ceasefire any time soon, even as a US envoy was heading to the region for a fresh round of peace talks. In a rare and defiant message ahead of what would be the seventh round of recent negotiations, Taliban chief Haibatullah...

Seventy-nine people were injured when several blasts at the explosives plant Kristall shook the central Russian town of Dzerzhinsk on Saturday, the Russian health ministry said. The blasts, around midday (0900 GMT) were heard all over the town of more than 230,000 residents and shock waves...

 Lebanese General Security Saturday organized the voluntary return of 621 Syrian refugees to their homeland from various places across Lebanon, The Daily Star reported. The displaced Syrians set off at about 6 a.m. in buses accompanied by General Security personnel, in...