U.S. backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Sunday they had expelled Syrian troops that had earlier taken control of a string of villages in oil-rich areas it controls east of the Euphrates river near the border with Iraq. The SDF forces led by the Kurdish YPG militia said in a...

The leader of the wave of protests that has pushed Armenia into a political crisis says he has met with the country's president. Nikol Pashinian said Sunday that he hopes President Armen Sarkisian will support Pashinian's bid to become prime minister. The parliament is to choose a new...

At least 15 African migrants died Sunday when their boat trying to reach Europe capsized off the Algerian coast, a coast guard official said. Coast guard and civil protection authorities rescued 19 of 34 people on board, state news agency APS said. The boat sank off the coast of...

The Syrian army said on Sunday it had captured a string of villages from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of the Euphrates river near the border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control, state television said. The U.S.-backed proxy forces spearheaded by the...