The European Union responded with dismay Wednesday after Britain proposed legislation that could snuff out hopes for a Brexit trade pact, but officials said Brussels would not walk away from talks to avoid a damaging 'no-deal' at the year's end. Britain published a bill that explicitly...

UN-backed experts have found evidence that rebels in Yemen recruited nearly three dozen teenage girls - some said to be survivors of sexual violence - as spies, medics, guards and members of an all-female force, according to a report released Wednesday. The findings came in the third and...

Russia's fighter jets conducted ten airstrikes on rebel pockets in northern Idlib province and parts of Kabana hilltops in coastal latakia province, local reporters said Wednesday. The fresh airstrikes have targeted the western countryside of Idlib city as well the Kaban hillops in the...

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun has come under fire after it emerged that tea donated by Sri Lanka for victims of the Beirut blast was distributed instead to families of his presidential guards. Critics see it as yet another example of official corruption in a country reeling from the...