The Syrian rebel commander stared at photographs of his fighters on the hilly frontline at the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, their pickup trucks stalled in the mud after a torrential downpour of rain. “It’s going to be a tough battle, maybe five or six months,” he said. “[But]...

The idea of spraying a haze of sun-dimming chemicals high above the Earth as a quick way to slow global warming faces so many obstacles that it may not be feasible, a leaked draft U.N. report says. The U.N. review of a planetary sunshade, mimicking how a big volcanic eruption can...

(Eqtsad)- Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Kilis have been living in a state of panic as the Kurdish militias    retaliate to the Turkish military operation in Afrin by bombing the border town. Two people were killed and 12 others wounded in Kilis after two rockets...

Britain's financial "old boys" club was rocked by its own sexual harassment scandal Wednesday after a Financial Times investigation found that female hostesses were groped at a men-only charity gala attended by hundreds of senior executives. Last week's event at London's Dorchester...