Four months after he took over a coalition government stunned by the far-right Freedom Party's electoral success, Austria's new chancellor has taken a populist turn, adopting positions remarkably close to those of his anti-immigration rivals. But Christian Kern's new tactics, on Turkey...

Syrian government and allied forces advanced north of Aleppo, pressing their week-long offensive to take the insurgent-held part of the city after dozens of overnight air strikes hit the besieged eastern sector, state media and a monitor said on Sunday. The Syrian military, supported by...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Hamdi Daham al-Jarba, the co-governor of the self-administrated Kurdish al-Jazira canton, directed a speech to the head of the Bashar al-Assad regime to deny the Kurdish administration’s intention to secede, and considering the invitation to bring down the regime an invitation...

Pope Francis said a Mass on Sunday for the miniscule Catholic community in Shi'ite Muslim Azerbaijan, urging the "precious little flock" to keep the faith and paying tribute to those persecuted during the Soviet era. The oil and gas-rich nation of about 9 million people bordering on Russia,...