Tense talks aimed at forming a new Italian government inched forward on Wednesday as two major political parties, struggling to bury years of hostility and avoid snap elections, agreed to re-install Giuseppe Conte as prime minister. The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the opposition...

Air raids hit near a Turkish military post in northwest Syria Wednesday, a war monitor said, after Ankara vowed to take necessary steps to protect its troops deployed across the border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes fired at areas surrounding a Turkish...

South Korea on Wednesday slammed Japan for effectively downgrading Seoul's trade status and accused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of treating the neighbour as an "adversary". The comments are the latest in a bitter tit-for-tat row stemming from a long-running diplomatic dispute over Japan's use...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohieddin Saho, a Syrian refugee who were at risk of deportation from Germany, has received church asylum in the city of Rothenburg after the German authorities decided to deport him to Spain, it being the first European country he entered. The first attempt to deport...