Syria regime forces have seized dozens of towns and villages in northwest Syria from their jihadist rivals following days of violent clashes, a war monitor said Sunday. The fresh advances in Idlib province bring regime loyalists closer to capturing one of the largest urban centres in...

Croatia went to the polls for a presidential vote Sunday that could weaken the ruling conservatives just as the country takes the helm of the European Union's rotating presidency. The pre-Christmas election, likely to be decided in a January 5 run-off, has evolved into a tight race between...

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani was on track to win a second term Sunday, after election officials announced he had scored a majority in the presidential polls. But despite Ghani's apparent clean win, the fallout from the bitterly contested September 28 election looked set to continue,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Al-Hamza Division, key unit in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, has tortured a telecommunication engineer refused to unlock smart phones 'confiscated' from the residents of Ras al-Ayn town, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The owner of mobiles...