President Donald Trump on Friday finally parted ways with controversial far-right chief strategist Steve Bannon, after weeks of speculation and as the administration reels from the fallout over Trump's response to a violent white supremacist rally. Seen as the driving force behind...

Syria's army and its allies have encircled a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in central Syria after a series of advances in the desert region, state media, Hezbollah-run media and a war monitor reported on Friday. President Bashar al-Assad's military has advanced against Daesh along two prongs towards...

European travel stocks fell sharply in early trading on Friday after a deadly attack in tourist hotspot Barcelona, with investors also increasingly concerned the Trump administration was fraying at the seams. As a global sell-off spread, the pan-European STOXX 600 was down 0.9 percent by...

In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian capital Damascus. The international experts wanted to examine the site, but were kept waiting outside in their car for around an hour, according to several people...