( AFP )- The U.S. airstrikes this week were aimed at a Syrian air base, but almost certainly got the attention of another adversary — North Korea. Heading into the first talks between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, North Korea was the front-and-center...

( AFP )- At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected U.S.-led coalition airstrike Saturday near ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 17 people were injured in the strike on Heneyda, and that the...

( The Guardian )- Is regime change in Syria back on the US agenda? For most of Syria’s six-year civil war the US has been pushing for the departure of Bashar al-Assad, even if former president Barack Obama was unwilling to use military options to remove him. Donald Trump had conspicuously...

( Associated Press )- The future of hundreds of asylum seekers languishing at an Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea remained in doubt Saturday, with the leaders of both countries declining to provide details about what will happen to the men if a deal to resettle them in the...