North Korea said Thursday it has "no interest" in dialogue unless Washington stops "escalating hostile military moves", as a senior US envoy visited Seoul with an eye on reviving nuclear talks with Pyongyang. Talks between Pyongyang and Washington have stalled since a second summit between...

Ten of thousands of people have fled to Syria’s border with Turkey in the last few days as a regime army advance pushed further into the opposition’s last major stronghold, residents, rights groups and opposition sources said on Wednesday. They left Maarat al-Numan, a city in Idlib...

Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes have hit a hospital in a rebel-held northwestern village, knocking it out of service. There was no immediate word on casualties. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Thiqa news agency, an activist collective, said the...

India has stuck to its commitment of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons but future policy will depend on the situation, the defense minister said Friday, which analysts said introduced a level of ambiguity in a core national security doctrine. India declared itself a nuclear weapons power...