A Beijing-backed civil servant, Carrie Lam, was chosen to be Hong Kong's next leader on Sunday amid accusations that Beijing is meddling and denying the financial hub a more populist leader perhaps better able to defuse political tension. The majority of the China-ruled city's 7.3 million...

Aid convoys linked to paramilitary groups have begun making regular deliveries to Mosul districts recaptured from ISIS, bringing much-needed relief but also fears that their Shiite backers are encroaching into the mostly Sunni city. The columns of trucks and cars carrying food, water and...

(The Telegraph)- Russia is to build a base and send military personnel to northern Syria to train the YPG, the US-backed Kurdish group, the militia has said.   Redur Xelil, a spokesman for the group, said troops with armoured vehicles had already arrived near the town of Afrin, 25 miles...

A North Korean missile launch failed on Wednesday, with the rocket exploding within seconds, the U.S. military said, the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests to rattle its neighbors and raise tension in the region. South Korea said the apparent test launch of one missile by...