May Day protests risk being rough in Venezuela on Monday as it marks one month since deadly clashes erupted in a political crisis with no end in sight. Protesters took to the streets from April 1 to demand elections after the courts tried to strengthen President Nicolas Maduro's grip on...

With a week to go before France's presidential election runoff, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen stayed on the offensive against frontrunner Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, trying to close a 19-point gap in the polls. After a surprise visit to a controversial aluminium plant in the southern town of...

By Hussain Nadim ( The Express Tribune )- If it was truly about Syria or defeating the ISIS, the mess that we see in the region today would have been solved relatively easier. The unfolding of recent events, including the US strategic bombing to ‘save’ human lives, is a classic Cold War...

 (Zaman Al Wasl) A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance is advancing against ISIS in the key town of Tabqa near the extremist bastion of Raqqa in northern Syria, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces now control at least 40 percent of the town of Tabqa, and more than half of its...