Algeria's five presidential candidates Sunday launched their campaigns for the Dec. 12 election, but some opposition protesters who say the vote will not be fair have hung sacks of garbage in places designated for political posters. The "Hirak" opposition movement, which emerged this year...

Protesters shot arrows and lobbed petrol bombs at police on Sunday as fresh violence erupted around a besieged Hong Kong university campus, with activists braced for a possible final police push to clear them after fiery clashes overnight. Police countered with dyed jets of liquid from...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday put a value of up to $1.71 trillion on energy giant Aramco in what could be the world's biggest IPO, but missed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's initial target of $2 trillion. Aramco said it would sell 1.5 percent of the company in a blockbuster initial public...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime’s Central Bureau of Statistics estimated the number of Syrians living in Syria at more than 25 million by the end of 2018, an increase from about 21 million in 2011 at the start of the war. The figures issued show that, contrary to the reports that...