Syria's opposition chief on Saturday said peace efforts were "paralysed" amid a lack of will from key international powers, after meeting the latest UN envoy tasked with ending the civil war. Norwegian Geir Pedersen replaced Staffan de Mistura this month to become the fourth United Nations...

Turkish president said on Saturday that Turkey has witnessed an upward trend over the last 16 years. In a rally looking ahead to March 31 local elections, Recep Tayyip Erdogan rolled out the full slate of mayoral hopefuls for the Black Sea city of Samsun. The president touted ruling...

A UN expert expressed her concerns over the escalating conflict in northern and central Rakhine and Chin States of Myanmar on Friday, calling for the protection of civilians in the region. In a statement Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar,...

Among the supporters of a new law to give greater autonomy to a Muslim-majority region of the Philippines are local evangelical Christians. “We will support the law,” Aldrin Penamora, an evangelical Christian, told Anadolu Agency. “The law will make many contributions to the region. I...