Turkish-backed forces in northern Syria aim to push Islamic State militants further south from al-Bab and are currently 12 or 13 km (8 miles) from the town, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August in support of largely Turkmen and...

(The Daily Star)- The death toll from an explosion and fire at a Pakistan shipbreaking yard last week has risen to 26, officials said Sunday. More than 50 others were wounded in the incident when a gas cylinder exploded and started a fire inside an oil tanker at the Gadani yard in the...

South Korean prosecutors arrested two former top presidential aides on Sunday in a snowballing influence-peddling scandal which has seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign. Park's approval ratings have hit a historic low of five percent...

A suicide attacker detonated an ambulance packed with explosives in Tikrit Sunday, killing nine people at the southern entrance to the city, police and hospital sources said. The bomber struck during the busy morning rush hour. Authorities declared a curfew in the city, saying they had...