The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia has advanced to within four kilometers north and east of ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a spokesperson and monitor said Tuesday. The advances bring the SDF, a Kurdish-Arab alliance, closer than ever to the extremist group's most important...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...

The United Nations said Monday that $1.4 billion (1.3 billion euros) was needed this year alone to help the nearly two million people who have fled war and famine in South Sudan. The UNHCR refugee agency and the World Food Programme presented an updated response plan to the crisis in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed Monday in the US-led coalition strikes on border town with Iraq, ISIS news agency said. Amaq agency said the deadly strike that hit Albukamal town had also let 35 peple wounded. A nother U.S.-led...