U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo, where thousands were evacuated on Thursday from the last rebel bastion in a city besieged for years. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said...

Pollsters hoping to avoid further election shocks are trying to improve the quality of their data ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, by asking questions differently and fine-tuning their collection methods. Opinion polls have come under scrutiny after the unexpected election of...

Turkish and Russian premiers spoke over the phone about the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo late Thursday, according to a Turkish Prime Ministry source. Binali Yildirim called on his counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to use Russia’s "influence" on its stakeholders in Aleppo, the source, who...

Hundreds marched through Ankara Thursday in protest at Russian and Iranian involvement in the siege of Aleppo, the latest in a series of demonstrations in Europe over the Syria crisis. Up to 800 people joined the demonstration, with some chanting "Aleppo is the world's shame" outside the...

Gulf Arab countries condemned the Syrian government's handling of a ceasefire and evacuation in Aleppo and called on Thursday for civilians trying to flee the war-torn city to be protected. An emergency meeting of Arab League representatives convened at Qatar's request discussed the...

French President Francois Hollande accused Russia on Thursday of reneging on its pledges in Syria, as the mayor of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo appealed to Europe to send monitors to help ensure the safety of civilians. "I have been talking constantly to Russia, and Russia makes...

Top state agencies and civil aid groups have completed preparations to evacuate civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo to Turkey’s border province of Hatay, Turkish Red Crescent official said Thursday. Under the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency...

Kuwait's new oil minister said Thursday he expects crude prices to climb to $60 a barrel as output cuts agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers take hold next year. Essam al-Marzouk gave no timeframe for his projection, saying only that he was optimistic producers would comply with the agreed...

(Sky News)- Yahoo says it believes more than one billion user accounts may have had data stolen in a cyberattack in 2013. It is separate to a hack in 2014, revealed this September, in which 500 million accounts were affected. The technology giant made the latest discovery as it was...

In an unexpected reversal, President Barack Obama declined to sign a renewal of sanctions against Iran but let it become law anyway, in an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran’s concerns that the U.S. is backsliding on the nuclear deal. Although the White House had said that Obama was expected...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Japan on Thursday for a two-day summit that marks his first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. His Rossiya Airlines plane touched down at 4:50 p.m. at Yamaguchi Ube Airport on the coast of western Japan, two...

Turkish fighter jets have “neutralized” 20 Daesh terrorists and hit dozens of other terrorist targets in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Thursday. In an air operation targeting Daesh-held buildings in northern Syria, Turkish jets hit 59...

Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave voluntarily, raising fears of violence as an evacuation deadline nears. The Amona outpost, home to some 40 families, is under a High Court order to be evacuated by December 25 since it...

Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter Adel Habara on Thursday, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance of militant threats to ignite "a volcano of jihad" across the country. Habara, 40, was sentenced to death in 2014 for killing 25 army...

The White House on Wednesday criticized claims that the U.S. is standing idly by as the Syrian city of Aleppo falls to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. "It's offensive to suggest that somehow the United States government and the world is not doing anything," spokesman Josh Earnest...

One of the two suicide bombers in an attack on an Istanbul soccer stadium last weekend had come from Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The twin attacks in Istanbul on Saturday - involving a suicide bomber on foot and another in a car - killed 44 people,...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone on Wednesday with his Russian, Turkish and Qatari counterparts, stressing the need to continue seeking a ceasefire for the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and the resumption of political talks to end the war. State Department spokesman John...

(Al Jazeera)- The UN's West Africa envoy says Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down when his mandate ends in January and would be "strongly sanctioned" if he sought to remain in power. Long-ruling Jammeh lost the election to little-known businessman Adama Barrow on December 1 and...

The top U.S. general leading the fight against ISIS says the militants got control of military equipment and weapons, possibly including air defense equipment, when they recaptured the Syrian town of Palmyra. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says Russian forces and the Syrian government took their...

Up to a thousand people gathered Wednesday in Sarajevo - the Bosnian city that survived a brutal 44-month siege during the Balkan wars of the 1990s - to rally against the carnage in Syria. Representatives of Bosnia's Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox Christian and Jewish communities said they felt...