Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria are in talks with their military allies in a US-led coalition over a promised exemption from US sanctions targeting the Syrian government, a senior Kurdish official said. Washington says the sanctions, which took effect last week, mark the start...

Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were found covered in red paint on Monday amid global calls to take down monuments commemorating figures with links to slavery or colonialism.  One of the statues drenched in red was of Voltaire, a leading thinker and writer of the...

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton marched in the latest anti-racism protest in London on Sunday, describing the experience as "really moving". The 35-year-old Hamilton, the only black driver in F1, joined the protests which have become common since the death of George Floyd in the...

Yemeni separatists funded by the United Arab Emirates Saturday took control of military and police camps in Yemen's Socotra archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage site, security officials said. By day's end the separatist militia had taken control of most of the remote province from forces of...