The Russian Defence Ministry said Saturday it would need the U.N. mission in Syria to formally confirm its ability to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo before Moscow agreed to any new humanitarian pauses in fighting in the shattered Syrian city. Moscow says previous temporary ceasefires on...

(The Telegraph)- At least four people were killed and 14 others injured in an explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Nato said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility. The explosion struck at dawn inside the heavily fortified Bagram Airfield north of Kabul, as the...

South Koreans massed in the streets of central Seoul Saturday, preparing for the largest protest yet against scandal-plagued President Park Geun-hye. Police expected up that a demonstration on the main street leading to the presidential Blue House could draw as many as 170,000 people,...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Abdul Majid Akil, the son of the former ambassador to Ukraine gave a statement for the first time about the intelligence reports leaked from the embassy in Kiev in 2013. Akil explained in a statement on Friday, three years after the reports were leaked, that his speaking up now...