A massive blast ripped through a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in the Syrian capital on Thursday, killing and wounding up to a dozen people, television stations reported. The explosion happened in the Sayyida Zeinab quarter of Damascus, which features...

Herve Jaubert, a French spy who left espionage to make leisure submarines for the wealthy, was riding high. Bankrolled by Dubai World, a government-owned conglomerate, he built a submarine workshop on the Persian Gulf, lived rent-free in a villa with a...

More than one million people, the majority of them women and children, are smuggled across international borders to work in near slavery every year, the US state department says. Its 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report lists more than 170 countries...