North Korea Sunday staged a fresh missile test, a day after staging a defiant giant military parade and hours before US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea for talks on curbing Pyongyang's weapons programmes. The South Korean and US military said the latest launch -- conducted...

In the foothills of the Aspromonte mountains in southern Italy, the silence of a once-dying village is broken by the laughter of a small group of refugees. Tiny Sant'Alessio has been welcoming families and vulnerable migrants here for three years in a project which not only provides...

Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for Iraq's second city and the war against ISIS are far from over. Tough close-quarters fighting in heavily-populated areas of Mosul is still ahead, and ISIS also holds territory in...

By Shams el-Deen Matoun (Eqtsad)- Cost of marriage in Syria, like all other services and issues, have become difficult and costing, not only the dowry that is paid to the wife to prepare herself and clothes before marriage, as people started to ignore it and just recorded on the marriage...