Buses evacuated thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shi'ite villages in northwest Syria on Friday and hundreds of rebels left a town near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and insurgents. A monitoring group said government forces later entered...

Canada announced new sanctions against Syria Friday in response to its alleged April 4 chemical weapons attack, freezing assets and banning transactions with senior leaders from President Bashar Assad government. The latest sanctions were Canada's first against Syria and Assad since 2014...

North Korea's army Friday vowed a "merciless" response to any U.S. provocation, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear program and speculation mounts that it is preparing a fresh weapons test. Pyongyang's rogue atomic ambitions have come into sharp focus in recent weeks, with United...

Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes Syria and called for an international probe into last week's chemical attack there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts at a trilateral meeting in...