The head of a Syrian research facility that Western countries say was part of a chemical weapons program was killed when his car was blown up, the pro-Syrian government newspaper al-Watan said Sunday. Aziz Asber was the director of the Syrian Scientific Research Centre in Masyaf, near...

Daesh (ISIS) has executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from southern province of Swaida last week, a journalist in the area and an activist group said Sunday. Daesh killed the 19-year-old male student Thursday after kidnapping more than 30 people, mostly women and children,...

 Militants have attacked a high voltage power line serving several Iraqi provinces for the eighth time in two months, the government said Sunday. The electricity ministry said it had to once again repair the 400 kilovolt line between Kirkuk and Diyala after "terrorist attacks of...

Hong Kong's leader joined mainland China Sunday in urging the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club to cancel a planned speech by a Hong Kong independence advocate whose party is threatened with a ban. "We respect the international media and respect the Foreign Correspondents' Club's...