A leading international human rights group Thursday said a Lebanon-led probe into the devastating port explosion in Beirut this summer has been marred by political meddling and lack of judicial independence, resulting in failure to yield credible results two months later. Human Rights Watch...

The investigation into the murder in France of a teacher for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class turned to Syria Thursday, where the killer had a Islamist militant contact, a source close to the case said. Seven people have been charged with being complicit in a "terrorist...

Asked about her dreams for the future, nine-year-old Salam al-Munir responds solemnly: "For the war to end and to go back to the innocence of my childhood, like the rest of the world's children". Salam returned to her village of al-Nayrab in the eastern Idlib province last week for the first...

The Nigerian military has offered to deploy in Lagos state if needed to protect key business and government sites amid anti-police protests, the governor said Thursday. Unrest has broken out across the state, which is under 24-hour curfew, sparked by protests and the shooting of civilians...