( The Guardian )- One afternoon, I managed to sneak away to see the Krak des Chevaliers. This medieval castle used to be a big tourist destination. I’d met some people in Jordan a couple of years ago who told me that it was absolutely stunning.  We were delivering sheep to...

Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International Development Minister Priti Patel. "It's tribal, it's absolutely tribal, so on that basis it's genocide," Patel told reporters in Uganda Wednesday, according to a...

German prosecutors issued an arrest warrant against a 26-year-old Iraqi man detained following an attack on a bus carrying players of a top soccer team, saying on Thursday they believed he was a member of Islamic State. The Federal Prosecutor's Office added there was no evidence that the...

( The Guardian )- Donald Trump has said that US relations with Russia may be at “an all-time low” and declared a new-found faith in Nato, suggesting the alliance was “no longer obsolete”. The US president’s remarks at the White House followed a two-hour meeting in Moscow between...