A shroud of black smoke covered the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt on Monday as US-backed forces battled holdout jihadists after a night of shelling and heavy air strikes. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces have been closing in on IS fighters holed up in a small sliver of...

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were thrown into further turmoil on Monday when the speaker of parliament ruled that she could not put her divorce deal to a new vote unless it was re-submitted in fundamentally different form. In comments that blindsided May’s office, Speaker...

Last week’s terror attacks in New Zealand that killed at least 50 mosque worshippers were not “an individual act, but organized,” Turkey’s president said Monday. “We speak once again from Canakkale after 104 years, and say we have received your message,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Investigators probing the Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia have found similarities in direction data with an aeroplane that came down off Indonesia, a source said, heightening pressure on the world’s biggest planemaker. The Ethiopian Airlines disaster killed 157 people eight days ago and...