As US-backed forces advanced, 22-year-old Dima Qatran buried one of her twin babies, then picked up the other and fled the Islamic State group's crumbling pocket in eastern Syria. Clutching her remaining 11-month-old daughter, she joined hundreds escaping the last shreds of the extremist...

The Syrian government on Saturday condemned Turkey's military presence in northern Syria as a violation of a 1998 protocol between the two countries. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted the Adana Protocol gives his country the right to intervene militarily in the...

Queen Elizabeth II has emphasised the need for Britons to come together to "seek out the common ground", in what is being viewed as an appeal to overcome bitter divisions over Brexit. Government ministers quickly interpreted the comments -- a rare foray for the 92-year-old monarch into the...

UN human rights chief on Friday condemned deadly violence rocking the Venezuela streets during the ongoing anti-government protests. “Any violent incident resulting in death or injury should be subject to an independent and impartial investigation to find out whether there was excessive...