(Bloomberg)- Saudi Arabian stocks extended their winning streak to six days, entering a bull market as investors bet the government’s belated payments to contractors would help spur more gains. The Tadawul All Share Index added 2.3 percent to the highest level since July, taking its rally...

Iraqi troops consolidated gains in their advance on the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, regrouping as they clear neighborhoods and houses once occupied by the Islamic State group. In Mosul proper, where troops have a foothold in a sliver of territory in the city's east, the special...

(Economist)- IT IS hard to think of a president-elect less versed in the workings of the world than Donald Trump; or of one more willing to upturn the global order that America has shaped in the seven decades since the end of the second world war. He has so far described his foreign policy in...

Liam Neeson got a little break from being famous. Sitting on the floor of a community center courtyard with two dozen local teens, he listened attentively as young Syrian refugees — who had no idea that he's a Hollywood star — talked about the struggles of exile. A 15-year-old girl said...