Disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend at the center of a massive corruption scandal has refused to testify at Park's impeachment trial. The Constitutional Court on Tuesday had expected to hear from Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of Park who's currently jailed and on...

Anyone who has spent time living in or studying the Middle East will be familiar with the work of Patrick Seale, who died last weekend in London after a battle with brain cancer. Seale was a journalist and long-term observer of the region and wrote what is still, two decades after it was...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with French media to be aired on Monday that his forces are on the road to victory after recapturing the key city of Aleppo last month. "We do not consider that (retaking Aleppo from the rebels) as a victory because victory will be when...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said. Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and...