Britain will probably set up fewer than 10 new regulators after leaving the European Union, a government source said on Wednesday, offering the first assessment of how officials will tackle one of the most business-sensitive Brexit issues. Untangling decades of complex legal ties between...

France's head of the armed forces Pierre de Villiers has resigned, a statement from his office said, days after a public dispute with President Emmanuel Macron over proposed defense budget cuts. In the statement, de Villiers said he had sought to maintain a French defense force able to do an...

Desperate to help Syrians stuck on Jordan’s sealed border, U.N. agencies agreed late last year to an aid system that critics say handed much of the control over aid distribution to Jordan’s military and a Jordanian contractor, and also involved armed men on the Syrian side. Since then, the...

Syrian government forces have swept across territory south of the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa, capturing a string of villages and oilfields from the militants, state media said Monday. The landscape south of Raqqa city strategically borders several provinces: Aleppo to the west, Homs to...