Yemeni pro-government forces have advanced to within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Sanaa in a push towards the rebel-held capital from the northeast, loyalist military sources said Friday. Loyalist forces took the town of Nihm after overrunning the headquarters of the renegade pro-rebel 312th...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal refugee policy, which brought 1.1 million asylum seekers to Germany in 2015, is not sustainable in the long run, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Friday. "This policy, which is justified temporarily, is unsustainable in the long term," he...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 16 civilians killed in Russian air strikes on the besieged countryside of Homs, activists and monitoring group said Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights and local activists said 14 people killed on Friday in missile attack on al-Ghanto town in the northern...

Major powers agreed Friday to a pause in combat in Syria, but Russia pressed on with its relentless bombing in support of its ally President Bashar Assad, who vowed to fight on until he regains full control of the country. Although billed as a potential breakthrough, the "cessation of...