U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and top brass in Cairo on Thursday, pledging support for the American ally on his first regional tour. The brief visit, with Mattis later setting off to Israel, came after Sisi hit it off with Trump during a...

Two Venezuelan students and a National Guard sergeant died on Wednesday after being shot during protests against unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro, increasing turmoil in the volatile nation amid a devastating economic crisis. Opposition supporters protested in Caracas and other...

The last rebel fighters have left the Syrian town of Zabadani near Damascus as part of a reciprocal evacuation deal for four besieged towns that had been interrupted after a bomb attack hit one convoy, state media and a war monitor said on Wednesday. Thousands of people also left the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led Kurdish militia said in statement posted online it took four villages form the Islamic State in the northern countryside of Raqqa province. Backed the U.S. jets, the Syrian Democratic forces captured villages of Jarwa, Hattash, Bir al-Jarbou’ and Um al-Tanak,...