China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely Muslim region that's been under a security crackdown, rights observers and independent experts said Tuesday. Police in western China's Xinjiang region confirmed to The...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...

German authorities charged a Syrian man who was arrested last November as he tried to travel to Denmark with planning to build a bomb and detonate it in a crowd in the capital of Copenhagen, public prosecutors said on Monday. The Syrian man came to Germany in 2015 and lived in a refugee...

(Eqtsad)- The Turkish Authority has rejected many Syrian refugees' applications who seek the Turkish nationality over security reasons, without details about the criteria for evaluating the security status of Syrian residents in Turkey.  Mahmood Mihdi,  Syrian teacher, who...