US President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed progress in negotiations on an Afghanistan peace deal, saying that talks with both the Taliban and the Afghan government are going well. But while Trump said the United States has things "under control," a massive bombing in Kabul highlighted the...

"They refer to us as the foreigners," says a downbeat employee at the Ohio car glass factory where hundreds of Chinese laborers have come to work, far from their wives, children and homeland. But the worker in question is American, not Chinese, and is finding life very different under new...

A raging wildfire on the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria forced the evacuation of some 5,000 people, authorities said Sunday, warning it could take days for the blaze to be brought under control. The fire, which has spread to the mountainous Cruz de Tejeda region popular with...

"Get those foreign agents outta town", roars a music video by a patriotic Chinese rap group, one of a slew of creative efforts by Beijing attacking Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement as violent and spurred on by overseas governments. The rap video, overlaid with clips of protesters clashing...

 A 17-year-old student who arrived in Ireland from Syria four years ago with only basic English skills has scored more than 600 points in her Leaving Cert. Nour Aljarad, who claimed asylum in Ireland in 2015 with her family, has secured a place to study dentistry at Trinity College...

 (EQTSAD)- The price of the Syrian pound against the US dollar has been declined since Saturday in local exchange rate in opposition-held areas. In eastern Raqqa province , the dollar reached an unprecedented rate due to the ongoing offensive by regime and Russia in...

Pro-regime forces were locked in heavy fighting with insurgents Sunday near a militant-run town in northwestern Syria, leaving dozens of combatants dead, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "fierce clashes" between loyalist forces, militants and allied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- War, with all its cruelty and ugliness, could not steal the beauty, innocence and wonder of the six-year-old girl, Sana'a, despite suffering a life of poverty and asylum. Her photos spread on social media and the world's leading magazines and newspapers in less than two days....

Thousands of people have been detained in Indian Kashmir over fears of outbreaks of unrest after New Delhi stripped the restive region of its autonomy two weeks ago, government sources told AFP. A magistrate speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity said at least 4,000 people were arrested...

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin was detained moments after his release from jail on Sunday after completing a 10-day sentence for his role in Moscow's recent wave of protests. "I have been detained once again outside the jail," Yashin said on his Twitter account. He posted a...

Jordan summoned Israel's ambassador on Sunday in protest over "violations" at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the foreign ministry said. It summoned envoy Amir Weissbrod to voice its "condemnation and rejection of Israeli violations" at the highly sensitive site, where...

The United Nations mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has dismissed claims by strongman Khalifa Haftar that a government-controlled airport bombed by his forces in recent days housed military infrastructure. On Thursday and Friday Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) launched air strikes...

Sudan's opposition coalition on Sunday named the five people it has chosen as civilian members of the country's sovereign council to be sworn in Monday, a source within the coalition told Reuters. The Forces of Freedom and Change chose Aisha Mousa, Siddig Tower, Mohamed Elfaki Suleiman,...

A car bomb killed a police officer and wounded two other people Sunday in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, police said, the second such attack in just over a month. Kurdish police spokesman Ali al-Hassan said the car bomb was detonated by "remote control" near a...

In some cases, refugees who came to Germany may be revoked of their status, and so they will be expelled from the country. This was stated by the German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer in an interview with Bild, writes DW. According to him, deportation, in particular, will threaten...

Russia will not deploy new missiles as long as the United States shows similar restraint in Europe and Asia, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on Sunday, after Washington’s withdrawal from a Soviet-era arms pact. The United States formally left the Intermediate Nuclear Forces...

Before Yemen’s war broke out four years ago Ali Muhammad used to cross the border into Saudi Arabia to work, joining thousands of other Yemenis from his poor, mountainous region. But fighting in the border areas left him unemployed in his remote village, watching acute malnutrition turn his...

Turkish authorities have seized a total of 330 migrants attempting to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos, officials said Sunday. The coastguard in the Kucukkuyu area of the western Canakkale province said it had conducted seven operations to pick up migrants trying to make the crossing...

: Syrian state media and an observatory say regime forces have gained more ground in the country's northwest, almost reaching the western outskirts of a major rebel-held town. The state SANA news agency says regime troops made advances on Sunday around the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun...

An Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West has raised an Iranian flag and has had a new name painted on its side, Reuters images of the stationary vessel filmed off Gibraltar showed Sunday. British Royal Marines seized the vessel in Gibraltar in July on suspicion...