Hamas this week marks 10 years since taking power in Gaza with the Palestinian enclave at risk of conflict and facing electricity blackouts, poverty and Israel’s blockade, analysts and officials say. The situation is likely to be further complicated by the Saudi-led diplomatic row with Qatar,...

LafargeHolcim, the Swiss-French cement company, faces a French judicial inquiry into allegations it helped finance terrorism in Syria, a scandal that has already led to the exit of its chief executive. The prosecutors’ office in Paris confirmed on Tuesday that three judges would start...

 A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left hundreds of people requiring urgent treatment, the UN and Iraqi officials said Tuesday. Health ministry spokesman Seif al-Badr had told AFP that there were 752 cases of food poisoning and two deaths, a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 regime troops have been killed by the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, local reporter said Tuesday. ISIS has stormed the regime bastion in Tallit al-Sawana northwest of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. 13 forces were killed and dozens...