Oil prices were stable on Wednesday as OPEC said it was committed to draw down a global supply overhang that has dogged markets since 2014, although bloated U.S. output and inventories still weighed on crude. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $54.92 per barrel at 0741 GMT (3:41 a.m. ET),...

The evacuation of civilians and fighters from besieged Syrian towns resumed Wednesday after a weekend bombing at a transit point killed 126 people, 68 of them children, an AFP correspondent reported. Dozens of buses from the government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, which have been...

When U.S. President Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the opposite direction. It was even farther away over the weekend, moving...

 U.S.-allied militias in northern Syria announced Tuesday the formation of a civilian council to govern Raqqa after their planned capture of the city from ISIS militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which include a large contingent from the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, has...