NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Turkey Thursday it must fully respect legal due process as Ankara continues to make mass arrests after last July's failed coup. "Turkey has the right to protect itself and to prosecute those who were behind the failed coup attempt but that has to take place...

U.S. President Donald Trump told the leaders of Canada and Mexico on Wednesday that he will not terminate the NAFTA treaty at this stage, but will move quickly to begin renegotiating it with them, a White House statement said. The announcement came after White House officials disclosed that...

President Donald Trump has given the military the authority to reset a confusing system of troop limits in Iraq and Syria that critics said allowed the White House to micro-manage battlefield decisions and ultimately obscured the real number of U.S. forces. The Pentagon, which confirmed the...

Syrian Kurdish forces called on Wednesday for a no-fly zone across the country's north in response to deadly Turkish air strikes the previous day. "Only (by) declaring north Syria as a no-fly zone can YPG defend the country unhindered. Turkey must adhere to no-fly zone," wrote the Kurdish...

First Daughter Ivanka Trump is contradicting her father, the US president, insisting that allowing Syrian refugees to immigrate to the United States "has to be part of the discussion" over ending Syria's years old civil war. "I think there is a global humanitarian crisis that's happening,...

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday and killed six militants, the military said, in a second day of cross-border raids. A military statement said the air strikes targeted the Zap region, the Turkish name for a river which flows across the...

French intelligence services have scientific proof that the Syrian regime was responsible for a suspected chemical attack that killed 88 people, France's foreign minister said Wednesday. Jean-Marc Ayrault said analysis of samples taken at the scene of the April 4 attack in rebel-held Khan...

A group of around 50 Syrian migrants have been stranded since last week in the Moroccan-Algerian border zone with neither country granting them access, activists said Wednesday. "Separated into two groups, they are surviving under very difficult conditions thanks to help from some activists...

Lawmakers investigating a drone strike which killed a British radical in Syria said they were disappointed by a lack of transparency which hindered their efforts to assess whether the strike was proportional. British national Reyaad Khan and two other Islamic State associates were driving in...

 Iraqi pro-government forces have recaptured the ancient city of Hatra city from ISIS, they said Wednesday. "Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) forces liberated the ancient city of Hatra... after fierce clashes with the enemy," said the Shiite-dominated paramilitary group....

 French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team Wednesday confirmed it had been the target of at least five advanced cyber-attack operations since January, which it said had failed to compromise any campaign data. "Emmanuel Macron is the only candidate in the French...

 Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir discussed Syria's future with his Russian counterpart in Moscow Wednesday after which he said Riyadh still believed there was no political future for President Bashar Assad. Al-Jubeir, after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the airstrike that the United States launched at a Syrian military base earlier this month damages the prospects of a political settlement for the war-torn country. The airstrike was in response to a chemical weapons attack on April 4 on a northern...

French intelligence services have concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria and that Assad or his closest entourage ordered the strike, a declassified report showed. The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun...

U.S. troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. Washington is urging Beijing -- Pyongyang's sole major ally -- to do more to rein it in, but the Asian...

Protesters in Venezuela plan a high-risk march against President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday, sparking fears of fresh violence after demonstrations that have left 26 dead in the crisis-wracked country. The opposition urged protesters to march on central Caracas, a pro-Maduro bastion where the...

( The Guardian )- The UN has been promised half the amount requested for its humanitarian appeal for Yemen, secretary general António Guterres has said, as activists on the ground said relief was being prevented from reaching its recipients. Donors at a fundraising conference in Geneva...

China has launched its first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier, state media said Wednesday, as the country seeks to transform its navy into a force capable of projecting power onto the high seas. Adorned with colourful ribbons, the Type 001A ship "transferred from dry dock...

A judge in San Francisco, California blocked Tuesday President Donald Trump's effort to defund localities that limit cooperation with federal immigration officers. The Trump administration had sought to freeze federal grants to "sanctuary cities", but U.S. District Judge William Orrick said...

President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters on Tuesday that Turkey would reconsider its position on joining the European Union if it was kept waiting much longer and if the current hostile mentality of some member states persists. Erdogan said a decision on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of...