Category: News

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Ebrahim Raisi and learn more about the president of Iran.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Gilad Shalit and learn more about the Israeli soldier abducted and imprisoned by the military wing of Hamas from 2006 to 2011.

In less than a week, the Taliban has overrun one-quarter of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals in a huge swathe of territory across the north of the country. The security situation here … Read More

On Wednesday night, Lebanon’s Central Bank issued an announcement that seemed to finally sound the death knell on the country’s floundering economy.

In Dubai’s Jebel Ali port, DP World is testing its “BoxBay” technology, which aims to speed up and automate the way shipping containers are stored, moved and shipped.

Hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul’s international airport, desperately seeking a route out of Afghanistan on Monday, after the Taliban’s sudden seizure of power sparked a chaotic … Read More

Just last week, US intelligence analysts had predicted it would likely take several more weeks before Afghanistan’s civilian government in Kabul fell to Taliban fighters. In reality, it only took … Read More

As the Taliban takes hold of the Afghan capital, Kabul’s citizens wait anxiously to see how life under the Islamist regime will unfold.

At least 20 people were killed and 79 injured in a fuel tank explosion in the Akkar region in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese Red Cross said on its Twitter account … Read More

In late 2001, the rolling hills to the west of Afghanistan’s Maidan Shahr were scarred with the black eruptions of high explosives, as the last few Taliban fighters were pounded … Read More