A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on ABC's "This Week" that Trump will...

 A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats, expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election, took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. "The plane has taken off, everyone is on board," said the Russian embassy in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Sunday captured strategic town after fierce fighting with ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said. Capture of the village of al-Mahmoudelly will push SDF further to encircle al-Raqqa city , the de facto...

(Al-Monitor)- In northern Syria, a group of Western volunteers is trying to bring combat medics into the fight against the Islamic State (IS). In September, when northern Syria was still hot enough for sand flies to bite, John Harding sat at a makeshift table of plywood and concrete...