Libya held rare municipal elections in nine communities on Saturday, although turnout in the country’s first voting for five years reached only about 38 percent. The North African state, which has been mired in conflict and chaos since the 2011 toppling of Muammar Gaddafi, has not held...

Members of the Saudi team that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi received training in the United States, the Washington Post has reported, revealing other new elements in the death of the newspaper's former contributor. A critic of the Saudi regime, Khashoggi was killed and dismembered...

Two militants were killed on Friday morning by Indian forces in clashes near the capital of India-administered Jammu and Kashmir.  Three Indian soldiers were wounded in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar amid the third major gunfight in the Kashmir region in the last 24...

The Israeli army has deployed reinforcements along fraught Gaza-Israel buffer zone in advance of anticipated Palestinian rallies on Saturday marking the first anniversary of Gaza’s “Great Return” march. Saturday’s planned demonstration will also mark Palestinian Land Day, which...