U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they had taken full control of a former regime army airport near the city of Tabqa along the Euphrates River. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led...

An academic at an Australian university has been prevented by Chinese authorities from returning to Sydney because he's suspected of endangering national security, his lawyer said Sunday. Border officials at an airport in the southern city of Guangzhou refused to let Feng Chongyi, an...

A joint committee of ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers has agreed to review whether a global pact to limit supplies should be extended by six months, it said in a statement on Sunday. An earlier draft of the statement said the committee "reports high level of conformity and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior domestic opposition figure said Sunday the delegates in Geneva delivered a draft on the Transitional Governing Authority and its powers to the U.N. Syria envoy. Hassan Abdel Azim, the head of National Coordination Body for Democratic Change affirmed the readiness to...