Syrian troops captured the town of Qalaat al-Madiq on Thursday as they continued a push into a remaining rebel-held enclave located in Idlib province. The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting on escalating violence in Syria on Friday. The Syrian government has captured the...

Venezuela's opposition leader Friday called for a nationwide protest on Saturday over the arrest of his deputy opposition figure. Juan Guaido told a news conference in the capital Caracas: "We are fighting a regime that armed the paramilitary groups, but this will not stop us. We will hold...

Many of them were barely school age when their parents took them to the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Thousands of others were born there. The children of the group’s followers are the most vulnerable of the Islamic State’s human leftovers — the remainders...

After a long push in Mexico, China’s Huawei landed a coveted job in 2017: supplying equipment for the country’s so-called “red compartida,” an ambitious telecommunications network built for carriers delivering the latest generation of technology. The contract came with a catch....