Protesters set fire to the government's headquarters in the Libyan city of Benghazi, as rare demonstrations over living conditions and corruption continued in the east of the country for a third day. The protests late Saturday also erupted in Al-Bayda, where the government was previously...

Sergeant of the Guards Mikhail Milshin, who was seriously injured in a roadside bomb blast in Syria on August 18, died in a Moscow hospital, a medical source told TASS on Sunday. "Milshin was transferred to the Burdenko hospital in critical condition, and was connected to a lung...

India’s coronavirus pandemic figures crossed the 4.7 million mark Sunday after it recorded more than 94,000 new cases, according to health ministry figures. India has registered a daily increase of more than 90,000 infections for five straight days and has added 1 million new cases in less...

An eight-year-old Syrian girl was injured by two rubber bullets allegedly fired by a Greek soldier at the Turkish border on Sunday. Turkish security forces were informed of nine Syrian migrants, including one who was injured, in the Meric district of the northwestern Edirne province,...

Saudi Arabian-led coalition fighter jets early on Sunday attacked barracks and military sites of the armed Houthi movement in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya reported. The coalition also destroyed four Houthi drones at Al-Delmi air base north of Sanaa, Al-Arabiya said, citing...

Mohammad al-Bahadli dug into Iraq's hot desert sand with bare hands to reach his father's corpse. "Now he can finally be with our people, our family, in the old cemetery," 49-year-old Bahadli said, as relatives sobbed over the body, wrapped in a shroud. After restrictions were eased for...

"This is just stuff. We're gonna move on from it," says Margi Wyatt, holding back tears as she stares at her burned-out mobile home destroyed by one of the fires raging through the US state of Oregon. The 70-year-old fled 30 miles (50 kilometers) from her home to Estacada in Portland's...

Eleven Syrian asylum seekers who were removed from the UK on a charter flight to Spain nine days ago and who were abandoned in the streets of Madrid have all returned to Calais, hoping to reach the UK once again, the Guardian has learned. One of the men who returned to Calais on Friday...

Hundreds of Lebanese marched Saturday on the presidential palace to denounce a lack of progress in a probe by authorities into a monster blast that ravaged swathes of the capital 40 days ago. Some marchers carried black versions of the Lebanese flag in a sign of mourning for the more...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday announced a "robust" arms purchase programme and an overhaul of the country's military amid rising tension with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. What appears to be Greece's most ambitious military overhaul in nearly two decades...

About 50 people are feared dead after an artisanal gold mine flooded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rain, a provincial governor said Saturday. The accident in the makeshift mine occurred on Friday in the town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province, about 270...

Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum-seekers on the island of Lesbos Saturday, as thousands demanded help after being left homeless by fires that destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp. Asylum-seekers -- including the elderly and very young children -- have been...

A mixed state of anxiety and trauma dominates among the Syrian community in Egypt, whether from the shopkeepers or workers in these stores, after the leakage of a copy of a periodic book issued by the Minister of Local Development in Egypt, Maj. Gen Mohamed Sharawy, addressed to all governors...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Saturday his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "not to mess" with Turkey, as tensions between the NATO allies escalate. "Don't mess with the Turkish people. Don't mess with Turkey," Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul....

Bahrainis opposed to forming diplomatic ties with Israel vented their frustration Saturday, while lonelier voices supported the accord, underlining the complexities of the Gulf's rapprochement with the Jewish state. The hashtags "Bahrainis against normalisation" and "normalisation is...

 Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities has executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man's life to be spared. State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi as saying...

Iran’s currency Saturday dropped to its lowest value ever against the dollar, and has seen its value fall by 30% since June amid severe U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran. Money exchange shops traded the Iranian rial 262,000 for a dollar. The rial had traded at 256,000 to $1 Thursday, and...

Hamas on Friday called the normalization deal between Bahrain and Israel as an extension of the US administration's Deal of the Century which "obliterates the Palestinian cause". "Joining these countries to the path of normalization make them complicit with the Deal of the Century which...

The Yemeni army announced Saturday it took control of the Houthi command center in the northern province of Al-Jawf. Army units took control of command and communication centers in the Nudud front, according to a report published on the military website, September Net. It said...

Just before Marie Colvin died, she was looking for her shoes. Rockets had already hit the top floors of the makeshift press centre where she was holed up, in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs in mid-west Syria. Another landed and she was killed before she made it out. Her death was...