Turkey's week-old offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria has displaced more than 300,000 people, a war monitor said Thursday. "More than 300,000 civilians have been displaced since the start of the offensive," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for...

Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party announced Thursday it cannot support Boris Johnson's current Brexit plan, dealing a major blow to the British prime minister just hours before a crunch EU summit. "As things stand, we could not support what is being suggested on customs and...

Japan plans to postpone a major imperial parade celebrating the new emperor's ascension to the throne after nearly 80 people were killed in a devastating typhoon, local media said Thursday. The parade was scheduled for October 22 as part of a series of events marking the official...

Washington is inching toward an agreement with Paris and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on taxing global tech giants, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday. A resolution would ease long-standing transatlantic friction over imposing taxes on tech...

Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad has risked his life to chronicle the atrocities of the Assad regime, and suffered torture in prison because of his films. Despite having his nails pulled out and electric shocks administered to intimate parts of his body, Fayyad continues to...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart in Russia on Oct. 22, according to a statement by Presidential Communications Directorate on Wednesday. Erdogan and Vladimir Putin will meet in Sochi, a Russian coastal city, as part of Erdogan’s one-day visit to...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, calling it “strategically brilliant,” and denied giving Turkey a “green light” to launch operations against Kurdish militants. “President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan’s decision didn’t surprise me...

Four US diplomats on Wednesday opened accounts at a Sudanese bank for the first time in decades, as Khartoum seeks to draw international businesses back to the country to help revive the ailing economy. In October 2017, the United States lifted its decades-old trade embargo on Sudan. But...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam had to abandon her policy speech because of jeering lawmakers on Wednesday but later offered no direct olive branch to pro-democracy protesters, hoping instead to ease resentment by building more public housing. Lam, who had to broadcast the annual address via...

A woman appeared in court Wednesday charged with terrorism offences including scoping out St Paul's cathedral as a possible bomb target. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court to appear again at the Old Bailey court on Nov. 1, police said....

Sudan peace talks stalled before they began in Juba Wednesday as a key rebel grouping said it refused to negotiate with Khartoum, claiming government forces were still bombarding its territory. Juba is hosting talks between the government of new prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and...

Following a wave of deadly anti-government protests, Baghdad has announced a slew of measures to stem corruption -- but stopped short of targeting the worst offenders. Analysts say Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi, an independent with no real popular support, is hostage to the parties that...

Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan's talks with Tehran and Riyadh had been "encouraging" after visits to try to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf. Khan travelled to Iran and Saudi Arabia as a "facilitator" between the arch-rivals, following a series of...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday issued a royal pardon for journalist Hajar Raissouni, overturning a prison sentence for an "illegal abortion" and sexual relations outside marriage, the justice ministry said. The 28-year-old will walk free "in the coming hours", while sentences...

Even though he deleted the pro-vegan post that started the trouble, Lewis Hamilton continued to be the centre of social media debate on Thursday. It isn't the first time. The Formula One world champion declared on Instagram on Wednesday that he worried about the "extinction of our race" if...

A senior US administration official insisted Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pullout from Syria will not change his hard line on Iran, a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad. In a Senate hearing, Trump's Democratic rivals said he had strengthened adversaries by pulling US troops...

Turkey's Syria offensive has created fresh divisions within NATO and, while there is no chance of Ankara being thrown out, the crisis adds to pressures on the alliance as it heads towards a crucial summit in December. Ankara's assault on Kurdish forces who played a key role in the fight...

  (Eqtsad)- In the far north-east of Syria, on the border between Iraq and Turkey, where the Orient Express passed more than a decade ago, a small town called Maabadah is separated by a street from one of the most famous oil fields in Syria, Rmelan, and near it the Suwaidiyah fields....

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser flew to Turkey on Wednesday as part of an emergency delegation to try to persuade Ankara to halt an assault on northern Syria that has forced Washington into an abrupt retreat. Robert O’Brien, who has been national security adviser for...

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen held talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem in Damascus on Wednesday, his spokeswoman said. Pedersen was expected to raise Turkey’s week-old incursion in northeastern Syria, diplomats said. His trip had been planned to...