Syrian regime army has launched a fierce assault on rebel fighters in a bid to break their year-long siege on Aleppo's central prison, a monitor, state media and activists reported Wednesday. The rebels and their allies from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front have been...

Gulf neighbours the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced a joint committee to confront "regional challenges", in a statement published on official Emirati news agency WAM. The move came as Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met UAE Crown Prince...

(Reuters) - Explosions and heavy fighting with anti-aircraft guns could be heard near two military camps in Libya's capital Tripoli early Wednesday, witnesses said, two days after gunmen had stormed parliament in the worst violence in months. Residents reported several loud...

BEIRUT (AP) — The widowed Syrian mechanic had a new lease on life after he married his second wife: he enrolled in a high school, graduating at 60. The couple had five children, living in an impoverished quarter of a town in northern Syria. They all died after a missile smashed...