(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish National Council announced on Sunday end of hunger strike organized by municipalities of the council during the last week in towns and cities in northern Hasaka in protest of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) arrest of supporters and leaders of the national council....

China on Monday accused Japan of trying to "confuse" the situation in the South China Sea, after its neighbor said it would step up activity in the contested waters, through joint training patrols with the United States. Ties between Asia's two largest economies have long been overshadowed...

The refugee crisis unleashed by the Syrian conflict has pushed the number of asylum seekers globally to a post-war record high, lifting overall migration flows, the OECD said on Monday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's 35 member states saw the number asylum seekers...

Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided tax payments, a senior tax official told Reuters. Muhammad Hanif, head of the tax office's...