Syria signs Paris climate agreement, leaving US as lone outsider Syria has officially signed up to the Paris Agreement, the UN said Tuesday, leaving the United States as the only country rejecting the global climate-rescue pact. “The Syrian Arab Republic deposited its...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from an abandoned Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea, as about 450 men remain barricaded inside without food or water. The asylum seekers have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS suicide attacks on Monday killed at least 20 regime troops and allied Shiite militants in Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The first car bomb attack took place near Hamdan airbase in Albu Kamal town, killing 17 troops, activists Salama...

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area. State television said more than 328 people were killed...