( The Guardian )- Aine Lesley Davis, one of the British jihadis who brutalised and beheaded western hostages in Syria, has been convicted in Turkey on terrorism charges and jailed for seven and a half years. Davis, 35, is suspected by western intelligences services of being a member of the...

South Korea’s election of a new president favoring a more conciliatory approach toward North Korea could add volatility to relations with Washington, given his questioning of deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system there, but is not expected to significantly change the alliance, a U.S....

U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the supplying of weapons to Kurdish forces battling ISIS in Syria, a US official said Tuesday. The funding "to provide support to the YPG has been approved," the official said on condition of anonymity. "The approval is effective immediately but...

Afghan security forces are battling Taliban insurgents blocking a main route into the northern city of Kunduz with improvised explosives, officials said Tuesday, as fears grew local residents could be forced to flee the city. Heavy fighting has been underway for days around Kunduz, a city...

Japan and Sweden have requested a U.N. Security Council meeting to obtain specific details of a Russia-backed agreement on establishing safe zones in Syria, diplomats said Tuesday. The meeting, which is likely to be held this week, would help council members decide on whether to endorse the...

U.S. President Donald Trump's defense secretary emerged upbeat on Tuesday from talks with a Turkish official about the fight against Islamic State but did not disclose any progress toward settling a row over U.S. backing for Kurdish fighters in Syria. Turkey, a NATO ally, is adamant that...

A key White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday to discuss whether the United States will honor the Paris climate change accord has been postponed, an administration official said. No new date was given for the session, which aims to bring together President Donald Trump -- who is flirting...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to protect the Paris Agreement on curbing climate change during a phone call with French President-elect Emmanuel Macron Tuesday. China and France "should protect the achievements of global governance, including the Paris Agreement", Xi told Macron,...

Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday Donald Trump was expected to visit the Palestinian territories "soon" and that he was ready to meet Israel's prime minister as part of the U.S. president's peace efforts. Trump is expected in Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip and the...

ISIS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring website reported on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry and the FSB security service were not immediately available for comment. The...

South Koreans headed to voting stations on Tuesday to elect a new leader, with a strong turnout suggesting voters are eager to move on from a corruption scandal that brought down the former president and shook the political and business elite. Unless there is a major upset, liberal Moon...

Key members of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday to assess the campaign's next steps as the extremists' "caliphate" collapses. Though officials warn that military action will continue for some time, they are generally upbeat about the progress...

Federal appeals court judges on Monday peppered a U.S. Justice Department lawyer with tough questions about President Donald Trump's temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, with several voicing skepticism that protecting national security was the aim of the policy, not...

Russia on Monday faced resistance from Western powers to a bid to win UN Security Council backing for an agreement it signed with Iran and Turkey on establishing safe zones in Syria. The deal signed in the Kazakh capital Astana last week calls for the creation of four "de-escalation zones"...

An Obama administration official who warned the Trump White House about contacts between one of its key advisers and Russia is set to speak publicly Monday for the first time about the concerns she raised. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is testifying before a Senate Judiciary...

 Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies said Monday citing survivors, in the latest such tragedy. The first involved an inflatable craft which left Libya early Friday with 132 people on board, only to start deflating...

Russia said Monday it had tabled a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council to back up a deal on establishing safe zones in Syria. "We confirm that a draft resolution has been introduced," Russian news agencies cited the country's U.N. mission spokesman Fyodor Strzhizhovsky as...

Syria's foreign minister on Monday dismissed the idea of foreign forces patrolling four safe zones that are to be established under a deal struck by Russia, Iran and Turkey, suggesting Damascus would only settle for Russian "military police" who are already on the ground in the so-called...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday the United States would closely examine proposed de-escalation zones aimed at easing Syria's civil war but warned "the devil's in the details" and that much needed to be worked out. The deal to create "de-escalation" zones in the major areas...

The Afghan government says the country's air force has pounded ISIS targets in an eastern province where a U.S. military raid last month killed the militant group's top commander. The Interior Ministry said Monday that the airstrikes killed 34 ISIS fighters over the past 24 hours and...