Pictures of  Bashar Assad hang on nearly every building in the town of Salma, which regime troops captured last week in one of their most significant advances since Russia intervened militarily on their side. The Syrian government offensive has given Assad a stronger hand going into...

The United State's main concern with North Korea is its nuclear program, the U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday, adding that American officials are eyeing the Korean peninsula daily. "The biggest worry about North Korea has been – other than its sort of strange and isolated...

Tunisia has declared a nationwide curfew after days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the interior ministry announced . Protests over unemployment in the country, which started in the western Kasserine province, intensified and spread to other parts of the...

A senior Syrian opposition official Friday ruled out even indirect peace talks with the government before a halt to Russian airstrikes and the lifting of government blockades on populated areas. George Sabra, deputy head of the opposition delegation, also said the opposition council he...