Civil Unrest

AMMAN (Reuters) -Syrian President Bashar al Assad has tasked Prime Minister Hussein Arnous with forming a new government following an...

By Lea Guedj and Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Paris and other French cities on...

DUBAI (Reuters) -The U.S. Navy is assisting an Israeli-managed petroleum products tanker attacked off Oman with two crew members killed,...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Jordan will temporarily close the Jaber border crossing with Syria for the movement of goods and passengers...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Small groups of students protested against Myanmar's military junta on Saturday in Mandalay and a human rights group...

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian judge who has been accused by human rights groups of hiding terrorism-related files has been...

By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States imposed sanctions on the Cuban police force and two...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Anti-government protesters on Friday blocked intersections across Guatemala for the second day in a row as calls...

KABUL (Reuters) -"Anti-government elements" in Afghanistan attacked the main U.N. compound in the capital of the western province of Herat...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The Bosnian Serb entity in Bosnia decided on Friday to defy the recent decision of the international...

(Reuters) - The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the...

GAROWE, Somalia (Reuters) - An explosive planted on a bus carrying soccer players in Somalia's port city of Kismayo killed...

By James Pomfret and Sara Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) -The first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law was...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested a 40-year-old man for booing China's national anthem...

By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A grisly murder in the heart of Islamabad involving families from the privileged elite...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's President Michel Aoun told the country's public prosecutor on Friday he was ready to give a...

(Reuters) - A Myanmar militia group opposed to military rule has found at least seven bodies with bullet wounds in...

(Reuters) - Australian coal miner TerraCom said on Friday a contractor had died at its South African mine on May...

By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets in protest on Thursday, lighting fires and...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels waged a spate of mortar attacks on Syrian army checkpoints in the...