U.S. troops and an allied Syrian militia conducted a joint patrol Wednesday in a town on the border with Turkey, a Kurdish news agency and a Syria war monitor reported. The move appeared to be part of an agreement to set up a safe zone along Syria's northeast border. Turkey sees the Syrian...

 Pakistan's police say security forces have raided a militant hideout on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, triggering a gun battle that killed all six suspects, including a woman. A statement from the counter-terrorism department says five police officers were wounded...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced on Wednesday the formal withdrawal of an extradition bill that triggered months of unrest and has thrown the Chinese-controlled city into its worst crisis in decades, Cable TV and other media said. The protests in the former British colony began in June...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass grave was exhumed Tuesday from a school in Raqqa city, the First Response Team of Raqqa Local Council said. Yaser al-Khamis, head of the team said thirteen bodies were recovered from a school in the Badu (Bedouins) neighborhood in Raqqa city, saying the grave is...