Twin explosions in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul wounded at least three people Wednesday, officials said, amid there were conflicting reports about the cause of the blast. With the city on high alert following Sunday's deadly attack on a voter registration center that killed...

An Israeli policeman was slapped with a 9-month jail sentence on Wednesday for shooting and killing an unarmed Palestinian youth in 2014, according to local media. Border police officer Ben Dery was convicted of shooting to death Nadim Nawara, a 17-year-old Palestinian, at the Beitunia...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese soldier has beaten a Syrian refugee to death in Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, activists said Wednesday. The soldier, identified as Abudlatif Zaitouni, has hit Mohamed Abdul Jawad Wais, 46, with a baton on his head, continuing a series of crimes...

Russia said Wednesday that it expected to sign a deal with India this year on the sale of S-400 surface-to-air missiles, the Interfax news agency reported. It cited Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation as saying that all the technical aspects of the contract had...