A series of bomb blasts targeted government-held areas of Syria on Monday, killing at least five people, state media in Damascus said. At least five people were killed on Monday in a double bombing in Syria's government-held Tartus province, state television said. "Two terrorist blasts on...

Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said. It was not immediately clear if there was any link between the blasts reported in the state-held cities of Tartous and...

(Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic has been starved of competitive action at the U.S. Open but on Sunday the world number one feasted on unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund in a 6-2 6-1 6-4 romp that put him into the quarter-finals. Djokovic had a second-round walkover as Czech Jiri...

(Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally. The missiles were fired from a region south of...