Afghanistan's powerful intelligence agency Tuesday denied reports of a massive pedophile ring operating in the country's schools, accusing the activists who broke the story of threatening public order. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said both Musa Mahmudi and Ehsanullah Hamidi...

 Sudan's cabinet Tuesday scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights during the 30-year tenure of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir, state media reported. Thousands of women were flogged, fined and even jailed during Bashir's ironfisted rule under the archaic...

Palestinians burned effigies of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, as thousands protested against a shift in US policy on Israeli settlements. Breaking with decades of international consensus, Pompeo on November 18 said...

Clashes between supporters of Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Saad al-Hariri, and Shi’ite groups Hezbollah and Amal erupted into gunfire in Beirut late on Monday, state news agency NNA reported. The clashes marked the second consecutive night of violence linked to Lebanon’s...