Turkish-backed rebels clashed with Kurdish fighters from a U.S.-backed alliance in northwestern Syria on Monday in escalating violence between the two sides, officials and a monitoring group said. The clashes took place around the village of Ain Daqna and the nearby Menagh air base north of...

Turkish authorities detained the editor of a regional newspaper over a column she wrote criticising the government for exaggerating the importance of last year's coup attempt, the newspaper said. Yeliz Koray, editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper in the northwestern province of Izmit, was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tawfiq Mohammed al-Ghawi’s, 23, body arrived at the al-Rahma hospital in the Lebanese town of Arsal on Thursday evening, two weeks after his arrest. Tawfiq, from the town of al-Qarah in western al-Qalamoun, worked as a tank driver transporting water and selling it among...

Flames ripped through three floors of a Honolulu tower block, killing three people including a mother and her adult son on Friday, officials and media said. The blaze at the 36-story Marco Polo condominium complex sent thick black smoke pouring over the city, a month to the day after a...