HERMEL, Hekmat Shreif- A massive suicide car bomb targeting an army checkpoint in the eastern Lebanese town of Hermel near war-torn Syria killed two soldiers and a civilian on Saturday. The bomb is...

GENEVA- The World Health Organisation began a campaign on Saturday to prevent outbreaks of cholera in temporary camps in South Sudan housing thousands of people who have fled the country's brutal...

BEIRUT- Fierce clashes raged Friday between Syrian troops and rebels in northeastern Damascus as government warplanes raided insurgent strongholds, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian...

GENÈVE- The UN refugee agency on Friday urged countries outside the Middle East to open their doors to 100,000 Syrians who need to find a haven outside their conflict-struck region. The call from the...

WASHINGTON, Shaun Tandon, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama on Friday offered his "strong support" for the protection of Tibetans' human rights in China as he defied protests from Beijing...

SOKCHO, Kim Dong-Hyun- A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for...

UNITED NATIONS- The UN Security Council will vote Saturday on a draft resolution calling for immediate and unhindered humanitarian aid access in war-torn Syria, diplomats said. Russia, with support...

TEHRAN- Iranian authorities on Thursday banned a newly launched reformist daily and arrested its managing director over an article seen as insulting to Islamic law, official sources said. "Aseman...

London- Tony Blair’s advice to Rebekah Brooks shortly before her arrest in the phone-hacking scandal included taking sleeping pills. The former prime minister also told her to ‘keep strong’ and...