BEIRUT: Daesh has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria.State television broadcast footage of the

Tanzanian tycoon Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped a week ago in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salam, has returned home unharmed. Dubbed as Africa's youngest billionaire, the 43-year-old heads the MeTL Group which operates

Sao Paulo - Brazil's turbulent election enters its final phase with far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro poised for victory amid a high-profile fake-news scandal and an uptick of reports of electoral violence. Latest opinion polls

Protests enveloped Washington, DC and other cities, where the streets teemed with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump was sworn in as the United States's 45th president. Angry

Angry relatives staged a protest on Saturday on the tracks where a speeding train ran into crowds celebrating a Hindu festival, killing around 60 people in northern India. The Jalandhar-Amritsar express hit scores of revellers who

Saud al-Qahtani was fired as Saudi Arabia's royal court adviser on Saturday, Saudi state media reported. The announcement came as the kingdom's state media said the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed in the

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by priests in Pennsylvania. At least one sexual abuse survivor discovered that the very church official to whom he had reported abuse

More than 100,000 refugees who fled violence in Nigeria have sought refuge in northern Cameroon. But with the host country also battling against the armed group Boko Haram, the UN says that the government

Over the past few years, there has been a growing tension between supporters of the Palestinian cause and supporters of the Syrian revolution and opposition in the West. This has often turned into heated

The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has reverberated throughout the United States' political establishment, with politicians on both sides of the political divide expressing their dismay over the Saudi journalist's confirmed death. Condemnations and legislative