Russia will on Saturday send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals from two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said as suspicions grow that a bomb caused last weekend's plane crash. Thirty empty planes will be sent to Hurghada, and 14 will be sent to Sharm...

Leaders of political rivals Taiwan and China met on Saturday for the first time in more than 60 years for talks that come amid rising anti-Beijing sentiment on the self-ruled democratic island and weeks ahead of elections there. The talks between China President Xi Jinping and Taiwan...

The Turkish Armed Forces has released details of a 40-day air and land operation on the terrorist PKK's mountainous bases in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province. According to local army sources, the operation -- named after Staff Lt. Col. Ilker Celikcan -- was launched on Sep. 27....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian teenage girl was kidnapped early Saturday by a Lebanese man from her refugee camp of in Bekaa Valley, activists said. Ali Abu Sweid, an armed militant, has kidnapped Fatema al Hamad, 14, from Ali Helal refugee camp in Zahle in front of her mother and brother,...