The Syrian regime and rebel fighters will Monday sit down at the negotiating table for the first time in nearly six years of war, the latest diplomatic push to end hostilities. Hosted in the Kazakh capital Astana, the talks will see an opposition delegation composed exclusively of rebel...

Protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a daylong assault on the city hosting Donald Trump's inauguration, registering their rage against the new president in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests. Police used pepper spray and stun grenades to prevent the chaos from spilling...

Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said Saturday. The two men and two women were extracted from the shattered ruins of Hotel Rigopiano...

The country’s former president who refused to leave office after election defeat in December finally agreed to step down early Saturday. Yahya Jammeh said in a national broadcast he believes no one has to die to solve the political crisis gripping the small West African nation. “As a...