A new round of Syria peace talks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Damascus regime fiercely denied it used a prison crematorium to hide evidence of thousands of murdered detainees. Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed to yield a political solution to the raging six-year...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia has advanced to within four kilometers north and east of ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a spokesperson and monitor said Tuesday. The advances bring the SDF, a Kurdish-Arab alliance, closer than ever to the extremist group's most important...

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely Muslim region that's been under a security crackdown, rights observers and independent experts said Tuesday. Police in western China's Xinjiang region confirmed to The...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...