Headline-grabbing summits between the leaders of North Korea and the United States will be off the agenda for some time, analysts say, after US president-elect Joe Biden characterised Kim Jong Un a "thug", in contrast to Donald Trump's declarations of love. Trump's bizarre diplomatic...

The global tally of people infected by the coronavirus shot past 50 million on Monday, as United States President-elect Joe Biden geared up to name the scientists who will lead the country's response to its disastrous outbreak. The incoming leader made the pledge in his first speech since...

The Democratic Union Party’s Autonomous-administration continued the seizure of state homes and residential areas in the northeastern provinces of al-Raqqa and Hasakah. One of those affected told Zaman Al-Wasl that the Autonomous Administration asked 4 families to vacate the apartments...

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' "blue wall," - more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - to rebuild the party's path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for...