George Clooney is to make a fictional film about the White Helmets – the Syria Civil Defence whose approximate 3,000 volunteers act as first responders in the war-torn country. Clooney is said to be using as his source Netflix’s documentary short The White Helmets, which was released in...

Oil prices rose on Tuesday, touching a one-week high on expectations of a steep draw in U.S. crude stocks, but edged off gains after Libya announced the reopening of pipelines after a two-year blockade ended recently. Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 40 cents, or 0.7 percent, at...

(Al Jazeera)- A man arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by driving through a Berlin Christmas market in a lorry has been released because of a lack of evidence, according to the chief federal prosecutor's office. The man released was a young Pakistani refugee who had arrived in...

Turkey's foreign minister has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Ankara and Moscow believe followers of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen were behind the killing of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, ministry sources said Tuesday. Ankara has also accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed...