The Syrian army has reinforced its anti-aircraft defenses near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a commander in the regional alliance that backs President Bashar Assad said Tuesday. Additional defenses are set to be deployed in the coming days, the commander told Reuters....

The first heavy monsoon rain of this year swept through Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, killing a child and damaging more than 1,000 shelters, a UN official said on Tuesday. "Torrential rains and winds up to 70 kilometers per hour caused at least 89 reported incidents, including...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could “work out very nicely” as officials from both countries met to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula. Kim and Trump arrived in the...

More than three million cases of dengue fever, the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, could be avoided annually if global warming is capped at 1.5C, said a study that purports to be the first to show the health benefits of a cooler planet. The mosquito-borne viral infection...