Hong Kong police laid siege to a university on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other homemade weapons from fleeing amid fears of a bloody crackdown. Dozens, choking on the tear gas, tried to leave the Polytechnic...

The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added more than a dozen companies and individuals to its trade blacklist for allegedly providing material support to chemical and biological weapons activity in Syria and diverting U.S. items to Iran without authorization. The action from the...

Turkey's defense minister, military chief, and top army commander on Thursday inspected troops near the border in northern Syria, the site of Turkey’s anti-terror Operation Peace Spring. “Nothing is finished yet here, anything could happen,” National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told...

Emergency services cordoned off part of one of London’s busiest shopping streets on Wednesday after reports of a chemical spillage that led to one person being taken to hospital. Police said they were not treating the incident as terror-related after they were called to commercial...