Crime

  A pair of Egyptian journalists and a lawyer are facing charges of joining a “terrorist group,” their lawyer confirmed Thursday, after they were detained amid a string...

  Hisham Ashmawi was found guilty of involvement in several high-profile attacks, including one in western Egypt in 2014 that killed 22 security personnel, an army spokesman said. He...

  The Syrian regime has announced that it is preparing construction plans for the rebuilding of what was previously the country’s largest camp for Palestinian refugees, the famed...

  As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control measures and weapons, including tear...

  In a landmark decisions all arrested Black Bloc protesters will be denied bail and sent to the West Kowloon Court in Hong Kong on coming Wednesday. The...

  Turkish authorities have captured a Syrian Kurdish YPG fighter suspected of a car bomb attack in the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab a day earlier, which killed 18 people...

  Three universities have reported to police that chemicals were stolen from their campuses which have become war zones in the past week as clashes between students and officers escalated....

  Many Hong Kong pro-democracy activists stayed at the Polytechnic University campus in Hung Hom since Sunday despite repeated warnings to leave. Hundreds of protesters and police officers...

  Black Bloc anarchists prepared for weeks a showdown with Hong Kong Police officers after a police officer was injured by an arrow shot. The “last stand” type of...

  Pro-democracy protesters have again paralysed parts of Hong Kong, forcing schools to close and blocking highways as students built barricades and stockpiled makeshift weapons, setting the stage...