Wayne Rooney turned down an offer to join Beijing Guoan in the summer, after his agent Paul Stretford met representatives, according to the Chinese club’s honorary chairman. Rooney is the subject of continuing interest from China’s Super League and Guoan tried to tempt the Manchester...

A US-led coalition air strike killed at least 23 civilians in a village north of so-called Islamic State's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, activists say. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that six women and a child were among those who died in the raids on al-Heisha...

(Middle East Eye)- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was the first leader from the Arab world to congratulate Donald Trump on Wednesday and said he hoped the US president-elect would "pump new life" into Egyptian-American relations. A statement from the Egyptian presidency emphasised...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on his election as US president on Wednesday and called him "a true friend of the state of Israel." "President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel, and I look forward to working with him to advance security,...