U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to honor the longstanding "One China" policy during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, taking steps to improve ties after angering Beijing by talking to the leader of Taiwan. Trump further unnerved Beijing over the self-ruled island in December...

At least one person was killed on Thursday when Syrian regime forces carried out an attack using chlorine gas in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, according to a local source. The attack targeted Eastern Ghouta’s opposition-held town of Arbin, Seraj Mohamed, a pro-opposition civil...

(The Guardian)- The focus of the plight of the Syrian people has shifted away from the apex of horror that was the suffering caused by the siege of eastern Aleppo. Now we must not let the lives of millions of people in desperate need across Syria slip from the world’s conscience. In 2016...

Three fugitives were killed Thursday as they tried to flee by boat from Bahrain to Iran following a prison break, the interior ministry said. Those killed were prisoners who escaped in a Jan. 1 prison break or their accomplices, it said. Seven other people were arrested in connection...