Syrian man jailed by the Bashar al-Assad regime has haunting memories of unbearable torture and abuse in the interrogation centers.   Jamal Abidin Najjar, a mechanical engineer, was detained while he was traveling from Syria to Lebanon as a warrant had been issued for his arrest...

Algeria's Supreme Court Wednesday placed former Industry Minister Youcef Yousfi in custody over alleged corruption, state television reported. Yousfi became the latest senior official to be detained in anti-graft investigations since protests broke out earlier this year demanding the...

A new team established by the global chemical weapons watchdog to attribute blame for the use of banned munitions in Syria will investigate nine alleged attacks during the country's civil war, including in the town of Douma, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Organization for...

A Palestinian family was evicted from a home in east Jerusalem near the Old City on Wednesday after Israeli settlers won a court battle that stretched more than two decades, activists said. The apartment in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan was home to a 53-year-old woman and her four...

Algerian army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah reaffirmed Wednesday support for interim President Abdel-Kader Bensalah, whose term ended July 9 but who remains head of state in the absence of elections. A presidential election planned for early July was scrapped, de facto extending Bensalah's...

The Khartoum district of Burri was a fulcrum of the uprising against Sudan’s former leader Omar al-Bashir and the generals who replaced him, its residents beaten and killed as they rallied for freedom and justice. Now that a three-year transition deal has been struck to deliver on their...

President Bashar al-Assad’s assault in the northwest has been met with a painful rebel counterpunch that underlines Turkish resolve to keep the area out of his hands and shows why he will struggle to take back more of Syria by force. More than two months of Russian-backed operations in and...

The United Nations is close to agreement with Syria on establishing a constitutional committee, the U.N. Secretary General's Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told reporters on Wednesday. The U.N. wants to convene the committee as a next step in efforts to find a political solution to end the war...

- France said on Wednesday anti-tank missiles it bought from the United States and were later found in a base belonging to troops loyal to Libya’s eastern commander Khalifa Haftar were never intended for sale or transfer to any party to Libya’s conflict. The Army Ministry said the missiles...

 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday Britain would face “consequences” over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker. Iran has demanded the immediate release of the Grace 1, which British Royal Marines boarded off Gibraltar last week and seized on suspicion that it was...

New U.S. sanctions against Hezbollah, including two Lebanese lawmakers, amount to an assault on the country and its parliament, Speaker Nabih Berri said on Wednesday. The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three top officials from Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday: Amin Sherri and Muhammad...

The United States will use an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board on Wednesday to raise pressure on Iran over breaches of its nuclear deal, but diplomats expect no concrete action as parties to the deal consider their next move. In the past two weeks Iran has breached two...

Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday it had visited Saudi Arabia to seek freedom for 30 jailed journalists amid sustained Western criticism of Riyadh following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The group, known by its French acronym RSF, had not publicized...

The U.S. wants to create an international military coalition to secure passage around the Persian Gulf and Yemen due to attacks on two tankers in June it blames on Iran, according to the head of the U.S. military. "We are engaging now with a number of countries to see if we can put together...

Britain and France have reportedly agreed to send additional troops to Syria at the request of Donald Trump‘s administration. Although the number of special forces troops operating in Syria has never been made public, both countries are preparing to send an additional 10-15 per cent of...

.Regime and Russian air strikes on northwestern Syria on Wednesday killed 11 civilians including four children and knocked a hospital out of service, a monitor said. The raids are the latest in an uptick in deadly government and Russian bombardment since late April on the...

The U.N. refugee agency says around 260 African migrants have been relocated to another detention center in the Libyan capital after the facility where they were being held was hit by a deadly airstrike. UNHCR says they were moved Tuesday, nearly a week after the airstrike that killed more...

Britain's ambassador to Washington resigned Wednesday after Donald Trump labelled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept. Memos from Kim Darroch were leaked to a British Sunday...

More than 20 people including pregnant women and children have been killed in recent tribal violence in Papua New Guinea, media reported Wednesday. The death toll and dates of the violence in the remote highland province of Hela varied in reports by Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the...

Apple Inc has started a program in Shanghai to help Chinese developers create apps as part of the iPhone maker’s efforts to build out its services business in one of its most critical overseas markets. The program, or accelerator, will hold lectures, workshops and networking sessions for...