Iker Casillas reached another landmark in his career in on Tuesday night. The Porto keeper overtook Edwin van der Sar's total of Champions League clean sheets in his side's victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv. The Spain captain has completed 51 full matches in Europe's elite club competition without...

Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria have declared a new province including a town on the border with Turkey captured from Islamic State in June, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday, formalizing Kurdish control over the border area, Reuters reported The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to personally thank Russia's Vladimir Putin for his military support, in a surprise visit that underlined how Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. It was Assad's first foreign trip since the outbreak of...

Slovenia on Tuesday called in the army to help it manage a flood of refugees seeking to reach northern Europe ahead of winter, as the small EU state became the latest trouble spot on the migrant trail. With at least 9,000 people landing on Europe's beaches every day, there appeared to...