South Korea said Thursday it believed it would be consulted by the United States before any possible preemptive U.S. strike against Pyongyang and China urged the North to halt its nuclear program in exchange for greater protection from Beijing. With a U.S. aircraft carrier group steaming to...

The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil legislation Thursday to fully legalize recreational marijuana use, making Canada only the second country to do so, after Uruguay. Its legalization and regulation would follow in 2018, in time for Canada's national day on July 1....

 U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic State in Syria launched a new phase of their offensive on Thursday, a statement said, but they have not yet begun to attack the militant group's stronghold of Raqqa city in an apparent delay in the operation. The multi-phased campaign by the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...