At least nine people, including three al-Shabaab attackers were killed when twin bomb blasts targeted the Interior Ministry building in capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a police official said. Police Sgt. Abdirahman Hassan told Anadolu Agency by phone a gunfight erupted after the twin...

Lebanese General Security said 377 refugees who had been living near the northeastern border town of Arsal returned to Syria Saturday, in a voluntary return the agency coordinated with the UNHCR, the Daily Star reported. Most of the refugees are from the western Qalamoun...

At least 47 people were missing and five were in a critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 27 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million people evacuated from their homes. Japan's Meteorological Agency...

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that other parties to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal had agreed to work out ways of trading with Iran independently of the United States' "whim", Interfax news agency reported. Lavrov said new ways of trading with Iran would be needed if...