(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians were killed Monday by a motorbike-borne IED in Suluk, a newly-captured town by Turkish-backed rebels in northeastern Syria, local monitoring said. The attack is the fifth in a week as IEDs and car bombs have been targeting areas taken...

President Sebastian Pinera replaced eight cabinet members on Monday including his interior and finance ministers, a house-cleaning aimed at taming the biggest political crisis since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990. Protests last week that spun out of control had already prompted...

Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by five months of anti-government protests that erupted in flames at the weekend, and is unlikely to achieve any growth this year, the city’s Financial Secretary said. Black-clad and masked demonstrators set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs at...

Kurdish YPG forces have not fully withdrawn from a strip of northeastern Syria under a Russia-brokered accord that is about to expire, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Monday, as Ankara prepared to discuss its next steps with Moscow. Turkey began a military offensive in northeastern...