KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on...

  Syrian Trade Minister said the government's decision to cut bread allocations has been reversed amid state of resentment swept the regime-held areas over the past week.   State-run media reported Sunday that Talal al-Barazi has declared the reversal of the decision...

Customs officials at the Al-Haditha Port, located near Saudi Arabia's border with Jordan, managed to thwart an attempt to smuggle about 2.1 million Captagon pills into the Kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Friday. In a statement carried by the SPA, the Zakat, Taxation...

Syria accused Israel Thursday of carrying out an airstrike in a central province, the second time in as many days, saying the aerial attack caused material damage. An unidentified Syrian military official quoted by the state news agency said air defenses shot down most of the missiles in the...