LOS ANGELES—Long before he got to Hollywood in 2012, Jihad Abdo was already a bankable star. Over a 30-year career, he had been featured in hundreds of TV episodes, 43 movies and 21 plays set in modern and ancient times, in roles as varied as villain, military officer and...

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in the Saudi Arabia Tuesday, the first leg of a regional tour focusing on Iran's nuclear programme and Syria's civil war. Hagel will hold talks with Saudi officials and on Wednesday he will meet Gulf Cooperation Council defence ministers...

(Reuters) - Kidnappers freed Jordan's ambassador to Libya and he said on his arrival home on Tuesday that in exchange his government had sent back to Tripoli a Libyan Islamist militant who had been serving a life sentence for a bombing plot. Jordan's foreign minister said...

Zaman Alwasl- Translation by Yusra Ahmed From the leaked documents Zaman Alwasl obtained, in which "Shabiha" reported crimes to other "Shabiha", maybe to get benefits or to elevate their positions. Reports described the community from insiders’ eyes and their...