The Republican-led U.S. Congress begins a new session Tuesday where it will start laying plans for enacting President-elect Donald Trump's agenda of tax cuts, repeal of Obamacare and the rollback of financial and environmental regulations. With Trump set to be sworn in as president on Jan....

(The Guardian)- A British man has been killed fighting against Islamic State in northern Syria, his family and Kurdish activists have said. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died on 21 December during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces to recapture the city of Raqqa, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The year of 2016 was difficult for the southern province of Deraa, after the victories of the resistance. The cradle of Syria's revolution that erupted in March 2011 had endured to unprecedented assassinations of rebel commanders in 2016. The year’s difficulties started...

The leader of Turkey’s opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said Tuesday he would back a parliamentary bill to change the country’s constitution. The move -- the first open commitment to support the bill by the MHP leader -- brings a potential change to a presidential system one...