Two rights groups are lodging a complaint to the UN over the "arbitrary" detention of a philanthropist Saudi prince, according to a document seen by AFP, adding to international pressure for his release. In January 2018, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, now 37, was swept up along with his...

A suspected attack on a pipeline in Syria has caused a nationwide blackout overnight, the state news agency quoted authorities as saying on Monday. According to SANA, Electricity Minister Zuhair Kharbotli said a pipeline blast in the Damascus area late Sunday "led to an electricity...

The 10 firefighters who received the call a bit before 6 p.m. - alerting them of a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut - could not know what awaited them. The brigade of nine men and one woman could not know about the stockpile of ammonium nitrate warehoused since 2013 along a busy...

Pakistan has issued sweeping orders enforcing financial sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of a US-led peace process in the neighboring country. Pakistan's foreign ministry in a statement late Saturday said the sanctions are not new but...