The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan reached 10 on Saturday, with three others missing, public broadcaster NHK reported, just two weeks after the region was hit hard by a powerful typhoon. On Friday, landslides ripped through waterlogged...

Fresh anti-government protests erupted in Iraq on Friday, with at least two deaths reported after Iraqi police fired live rounds into the air along with tear gas canisters to disperse thousands of protesters in Baghdad. Iraqi police fired live shots into the air and dozens of tear gas...

Around 300 more Russian military police from the southern Russian region of Chechnya have arrived in Syria, the defence ministry said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. The military police will patrol specific regions and help with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces and their weapons...

Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian regime troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state-run news agency and a war monitoring group said. The fighting underscored the risks of violence as multiple and...