China's Industry Minister, Miao Wei, said Saturday that investment across the Taiwan Strait can help achieve China's aim of achieving unification with the self-ruled island, and called for Taiwan to be more open to Chinese businesses. China deems Taiwan a wayward province to be taken back by...

(Daily Mail)- The Syrian army took control of the main water pumping station for Aleppo at al-Khafsa near the Euphrates on Tuesday after Islamic State fighters withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said. The army and its allies, backed by Russian air...

Iraqi special forces battled ISIS Friday in west Mosul, where a commander said extremist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults. The extremists are also facing simultaneous offensives in Syria by government forces, Turkish-backed rebels and a U.S.-supported alliance...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish forces took new ground from ISIS in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, the last main road out of the city which is bordered to the south by the Euphrates River, spokesman said Friday. The SDF captured the district of al-Jazrat, making significant close to...