Syria's government and opposition negotiators could soon hold face-to-face talks for the first time, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday, the penultimate day of a round of peace talks in Geneva. He did not expect the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to unite with...

A convoy of refugees began leaving the Lebanese border region for Syria on Wednesday, a security source said, the second group to return under an agreement brokered by the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. The Lebanese army escorted around 250 people out of the border town of Arsal. The...

Iraqi forces clashed with Daesh (ISIS) militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the extremists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's victory...

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday there were many differences with Britain on citizens' rights, including on the role of the EU court, that needed to be sorted out before talks on a trade deal could start. "We want EU citizens in Britain to have the same rights...