With its walls pounded by artillery, roofs torn open and concrete beams in shreds, Al-Wehdah school lies in ruins as students return for the first day of Yemen's school year. At the school near Taez, the third-biggest city in a country shattered by years of war between the government and...

As the number of novel coronavirus cases in India nears 7 million, the country's Central Bank projected that the economy would contract by 9.5% this fiscal year. After a meeting of India's monetary policy committee on Friday morning, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI),...

The Israeli army said Friday it was holding the body of a Palestinian shot dead in a West Bank clash earlier this week, ending days of uncertainty over his fate. The announcement follows a policy change last month in which Israel said it would not return the bodies of any Palestinian killed...

Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, former premier Saad al-Hariri, said on Thursday he feared civil strife as the country sinks into its worst financial crisis since a 1975-1990 civil war. “I fear a civil war and what is happening in terms of carrying arms and what we are seeing...