Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has asked the company for an “urgent briefing” regarding plans to integrate the underlying infrastructure of its three social messaging platforms. In a statement posted to its website late last week the Irish Data Protection...

Prominent Egyptian Jihadi cleric, Abu al-Yaqzan al-Masri, has resigned from the  former al-Qaeda branch, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, as a result of major differences, several Syrian opposition sources revealed on February 2. The Enab Baladi news outlet said that HTS’ leadership has tried...

Four children were among at least 11 people killed when a war-damaged block of flats collapsed in Syria's second city Aleppo on Saturday, state media said. One child was pulled out alive from the rubble of the five-storey block after rescue teams toiled, many of them with their bare hands,...

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday announced suspension of the landmark Intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) Treaty with the U.S. Putin told foreign and defense ministers at a meeting in Moscow not to initiate talks with Washington on this issue. "We will proceed as follows. Our...