The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia has advanced to within four kilometers north and east of ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a spokesperson and monitor said Tuesday. The advances bring the SDF, a Kurdish-Arab alliance, closer than ever to the extremist group's most important...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...

French authorities Tuesday charged a suspected ISIS "scout" believed to have helped a key organizer of the 2015 Paris attacks and the perpetrator of a foiled train attack enter Europe. Prosecutors charged Bilal Chatra, a 21-year-old from Algeria, with complicity in an attempted terrorist...

  On October 10, 2013, 268 Syrian refugees, including 60 children, were died when their boat capsized 60 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to leaked recordings. (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leaked sound recordings of the disaster of drowning of large boat carrying...