TOKYO (AFP)-  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The magnitude 9.0 quake - which...

France on Friday condemned Bashar al-Assad regime and its allies for targeting Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, despite an adoption of UN Security Council resolution late last month, which called for a 30-day cease-fire. "France condemns the continued intensification of the...

Turkey's military and its rebel allies have besieged the northern Syrian town of Afrin and were nearing its town center, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, in what would mark a major advance in Turkey's military operation. Turkey launched its operation, dubbed "Olive Branch", in...

An aid convoy into Syria's eastern Ghouta Friday unloaded all its aid in the opposition-held area's main town of Douma and crossed back into government-held territory, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria told Reuters. The convoy consisted of 13 trucks of food supplies...