EU antitrust regulators hit Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google with a record 2.42-billion-euro ($2.7 billion) fine on Tuesday, taking a tough line in the first of three investigations into the company's dominance in searches and smartphones. It is the biggest fine the EU has ever imposed on a...

US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. "The strikes hit an IS jail in Mayadeen at dawn on Monday, killing 44 prisoners and 15 jihadists," Observatory chief Rami Abdel...

Syria has denied White House allegations that it may be preparing a new chemical attack, insisting again that it has never used such arms. Ali Haidar, the minister for national reconciliation, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the White House statement foreshadowed a "diplomatic...

White House warnings to Syrian President Bashar Assad and his military not to conduct a chemical weapons attack are unacceptable, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. "I am not aware of any information about a threat that chemical weapons can be used," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a...