The Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden is reportedly facing financial hardship after the terms of his military discharge left him without a pension or health insurance, according to a profile of the man published this week by Esquire magazine.

Political bureau chief of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, has called for real pressure to be applied on Israel.

Surviving on handouts and unable to look for work outside refugee camps, Rohingya Muslims are forced by Burmese authorities to take hazardous journeys by sea to flee persecution in their country.

At least 12 people have been killed and 30 others wounded following a car-bomb explosion near the border between Turkey and Syria, according to Turkish television.

Egyptian police fired water cannon at stone-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace on Monday as the opposition held rallies to mark the second anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow.

Despite resistance from within his own group, Syrian National Coalition leader Moaz Alkhatib again renewed his call for talks with the Assad regime.

The Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza has set up its own news agency, called Al Rai (Opinion), the Palestinian territory’s Hamas government announced on Monday.

North Korea has successfully carried out an underground nuclear test of a new, “miniaturised” device, state media says.

A Syrian thirty-year-old woman and daughter of a former military security general became the first Syrian female to hold a leading post in the Free Syrian Army.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has expressed concern over the growing number of Palestinian refugees being killed in the ongoing internal conflict in Syria.