(Foreign Policy)- Late last week, President-elect Donald Trump explained for the first time since his election victory his position on the crisis in Syria. In his remarks, he laid out his determination to ramp up the fight against the Islamic State and to cease support to those fighting...

Russia has launched its first attacks on militant targets in Syria involving warplanes from both Russian and Syrian air bases as well as from a Russian aircraft carrier, the defense ministry said Thursday quoted by Russian news agencies. Read More: Regime forces launch...

A hundred migrants were feared drowned Thursday after yet another migrant shipwreck off the Libyan coast, raising the number of those missing feared drowned this week to 340. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said around 100 people were believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Wednesday,...

Russia's communications regulator on Thursday ordered Internet service providers to block public access to the website of social networking company LinkedIn to comply with a court ruling that found the firm guilty of violating data laws. Roskomnadzor, the watchdog, said it was acting to...

After losing the popular vote, President-elect Donald Trump has decided that the Electoral College is a pretty smart way to elect a president after all. Despite losing the election, Democrat Hillary Clinton will win the popular vote by more than 1 million votes as she runs up big leads in...

The dollar fell back against other major currencies on Thursday, hit by speculation U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen will express concern over the pace of its surge to a 13 1/2-year high in the past week and an accompanying rise in bond yields. The dollar has ground its way higher...

South Korea's parliament on Thursday approved a bill to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate a corruption scandal engulfing President Park Geun-hye, sharply raising political pressure on her to step down. The motion proposed by the main opposition Democratic Party passed by a vote of...

Hundreds of survivors stranded by a huge earthquake that struck central New Zealand three days ago reached Christchurch by a naval ship early on Thursday, as engineers in the capital Wellington assessed the state of dozens of damaged buildings. Around 450 tourists and residents from the...

(The Guardian)- UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has warned of a “very real risk of mass atrocities” in South Sudan and that peacekeepers deployed in the war-torn country will not be able to stop such a bloodbath. Ban told the security council in a report released on Wednesday that the...

(The Guardian)- Outgoing US president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel have made an appeal for continued cooperation between the US and the European Union on climate change, anti-terror measures as well as a transatlantic trade deal during Donald Trump’s presidency. In a...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to renew a bill that sanctions Iran and a separate piece of legislation that imposes new ones against supporters of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both bills backed were overwhelmingly approved by the by the Foreign Affairs...

The Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said he met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump and warned him that he would work to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. "I reiterated to him that this city and so many cities around the country will do all we can to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court, which rules on such grave charges as genocide and crimes against humanity. Russia in 2000 signed the Rome treaty that established the Hague-based court but never ratified...

The head of a leading civil rights organization has urged Muslim Americans to "stay strong" following the election of Donald Trump. Trump made a number of Islamophobic remarks during his presidential campaign, including his infamous demand that the U.S. close its borders to all Muslims...

 The United States on Tuesday strongly condemned Russia's renewed bombing campaign in Syria and warned that strikes on civilian targets break international law. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Washington had received reports that the latest Russian and Syrian regime...

Hundreds of demonstrators are gathering outside the Supreme Court to protest Donald Trump's election. They are mostly young people who appear to have walked out of school to protest. They are carrying signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "Not My President." Another signs says "DCPS...

Kenya destroyed some 5,250 illegal firearms by fire on Tuesday as part of efforts to fight crimes like cattle rustling, carjackings and to eliminate threats from terrorism. The burning destroyed weapons confiscated by law enforcement officials or voluntarily surrendered to agents collecting...

(Time)- Russia announced a major new air offensive in Syria on Tuesday as opposition activists on the ground reported that the first airstrikes in nearly a month struck the besieged, rebel-held parts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. According to activists, between four and 10 people...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday the military alliance wanted dialogue with Russia, after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Monday to work towards "constructive cooperation". "The message from NATO has been that we want dialogue...

(Independent)- Lindsay Lohan is asking Donald Trump to join her at refugee camps in Syria and Istanbul because she has had an “eye opening experience” in Turkey, her spokesperson has said.  Lohan has been spending time in Turkey and sharing pictures with the hashtag “the world is bigger...