(Daily Mail)- Boris Johnson yesterday said he was 'sickened' by reports that Bashar al-Assad's regime tortured and hanged 13,000 political prisoners in four years. Amid compelling evidence that the Syrian president's henchmen carried out an unprecedented 'policy of extermination', the Foreign...

Angry French youths clashed with police and burned cars in a Paris suburb for a third night in a row on Monday, police sources said, amid simmering anger over the alleged rape of a local man during his arrest last week. A 22-year-old black youth worker named as Theo required major surgery...

(Foreign Policy)- During his first trip to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump gave his generals a month to develop a new plan to defeat the Islamic State. One of the most pressing questions is when and how to take Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital in Syria. Left unresolved in the...

An explosion occurred near the Supreme Court in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, according to police and witnesses. An apparent suicide bomber targeted Supreme Court employees leaving their offices at the end of the working day, but the number of casualties was not...