President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, calling it “strategically brilliant,” and denied giving Turkey a “green light” to launch operations against Kurdish militants. “President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan’s decision didn’t...

Sudan peace talks stalled before they began in Juba Wednesday as a key rebel grouping said it refused to negotiate with Khartoum, claiming government forces were still bombarding its territory. Juba is hosting talks between the government of new prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and...

  (Eqtsad)- In the far north-east of Syria, on the border between Iraq and Turkey, where the Orient Express passed more than a decade ago, a small town called Maabadah is separated by a street from one of the most famous oil fields in Syria, Rmelan, and near it the Suwaidiyah fields....

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser flew to Turkey on Wednesday as part of an emergency delegation to try to persuade Ankara to halt an assault on northern Syria that has forced Washington into an abrupt retreat. Robert O’Brien, who has been national security adviser...