(Al-Jazeera)- The fresh clashes in Syria's Idlib region between a dozen important Islamist and extremist rebel movements are battles for turf and authority on the ground - but they also mirror northern Syria's ever-changing complexities, as local, regional and international actors change...

U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another dramatic twist in the unusually...

An embattled Donald Trump fired his government's chief lawyer for refusing to defend his controversial immigration orders Monday, deepening a political crisis engulfing his young presidency. In a caustic statement, Trump's White House said acting attorney general Sally Yates had "betrayed"...

Several congressional Republicans have spoken out against President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee restrictions, reflecting unease within the president's party about the direction he is taking in his first weeks in office. But it was not immediately clear if such internal opposition...