Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement spelling out mechanisms to "coordinate" their air forces in Syria when conducting strikes "on terrorist targets", the Russian defence ministry said Thursday. Delegations from the two countries, which last month brokered a ceasefire in war-torn...

Tunisian police firing tear gas clashed on Thursday with hundreds of youths who tossed rocks and petrol bombs in protests over jobs and a lack of development in a town in the country's south, residents said. Six years after their revolt ousted autocrat Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A woman has been killed in regime aerial bombing on the northern countryside of Hama province, despite a fragile two-week-old truce , activists said Thursday. The strikes targeted the town of Alltamneh and the villages of al-Zallaqiyat, Qastal and Rasm al-Abed, residents...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday told the European Union it must keep a united front in negotiations with Britain over its exit from the bloc. "We are absolutely in agreement that we cannot let ourselves be divided," she told a news conference after talks with Luxembourg Prime...