Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country’s south. The strike early Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a...

The first Bangladeshis airlifted home after fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon described the constant fear of living in a city rocked by explosions. Late Monday the first 54 of some 1,800 Bangladeshis wanting to escape the troubled Mediterranean nation flew back to Dhaka on a...

The BRICS group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Putin hopes to build up BRICS - which has expanded to include...

An Israeli strike targeting Syria’s Mediterranean port city of Latakia early on Thursday resulted in fires breaking out there, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fires, SANA added. Syrian state television reported the country’s air...