Britain published legislation Thursday to sever political, financial and legal ties with the European Union, an important step towards Brexit but one which the opposition said it would challenge. The Repeal Bill is central to the government's plan to exit the EU in 2019, disentangling...

Syria's government and opposition negotiators could soon hold face-to-face talks for the first time, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday, the penultimate day of a round of peace talks in Geneva. He did not expect the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to unite with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led airstrikes killed a mother and her two children in Hasaka province while three more people lost their lives in a road mine explosion in the northern countryside, activists said Thursday. The U.S.-led airstrikes struck the village of al-Sada al-Gharbiya,...

U.S. military advisors are operating inside the city of Raqqa, Daesh's (ISIS) last major bastion in Syria, a U.S. official said Wednesday. The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters from the Syrian...