China's top lawmaking body Saturday criticized the defense bill that Washington passed this week as "interference", Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported. You Wenze, a spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), expressed "strong...

Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing bombardment in Syria's Idlib region, the UN said, as fighting flares in the jihadist bastion fuelling an already dire humanitarian situation. The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people including many displaced by Syria's civil...

 Hundreds of people protested Friday by the Bab al-Hawa border gate connecting northwestern Syria and Turkey after a spate of aerial bombings. The strikes in the rebel-controlled pocket, carried out by the Syrian government and its Russian allies, are said to have left many civilians...

Syrian regime troops Friday captured four villages in Syria's northwest as part of a new ground offensive to push into rebel-held Idlib province, military and opposition activists said. The offensive has already forced thousands of civilians to abandon their homes and flee for their...