French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday warned against an "escalation of tensions" over North Korea amid a growing war of words between Washington and Pyongyang. In a statement, Macron voiced his "concern at the ballistic and nuclear threat coming from North Korea", saying the...

Syrian regime forces seized full control of the last major town in Homs province held by Daesh (ISIS), Syrian state media reported on Saturday, as the army and its allies press a multi-pronged advance into eastern areas held by the extremist group. Syrian state media cited a military source...

Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...

More than 600,000 Syrians returned to their homes in the first seven months of this year, nearly as many as in all of 2016, but they are still outnumbered by those freshly displaced, the U.N. migration agency said Friday. Many went back to their areas of origin to check on property or...