Unidentified gunmen in southern Libya on Monday abducted two Italian nationals and a Canadian working for an Italian airport maintenance company, according to a local official. "The abducted individuals were doing maintenance on the city’s airport," Qomani Mohamed Saleh, mayor of Libya’s...

Reporting by Manar Abdulrazeq (Eqtsad)- The price of a barrel of diesel exceeded SYP 20,000 in neighbourhoods of Eastern Aleppo, while many kinds of vegetables disappeared as well as the meat, especially chicken, after 27 days of severe siege imposed on Eastern part of Aleppo by the Syrian...

A Syrian ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia was in deep trouble on Monday as a rebel official said it had practically failed and signaled insurgents were preparing for a full resumption of fighting. Already widely violated since it took effect a week ago, the ceasefire came...

On Sept. 1, half a dozen Hamas security officials called at the home of Mohammed Othman, a young journalist in Gaza who had written several probing articles. They seized two laptops, two mobile phones and took Othman away for questioning. Twenty-four hours later, after what he described as...