Austria wants the European Union to freeze membership talks with Turkey over Ankara's massive crackdown following the failed coup. Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Monday that the EU "must at least freeze the accession negotiations." He said "it is wrong to continue...

The Russian government has been constantly lying about its willingness to negotiate a ceasefire in Aleppo, France's foreign minister said on Monday, accusing Moscow of intentionally deceiving its partners. "There is Russian doublespeak ... a form of constant lies. On the one hand they say...

China said Monday that it had "serious concern" about President-elect Donald Trump's most recent comments concerning Taiwan, and warned that any changes to how America deals with the self-governing island could damage diplomatic ties between Washington and Beijing. China's comments came a...

The Turkish army has dropped leaflets on the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in Syria urging civilians to seek shelter, as rebels backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes close in on the city. The leaflets, dropped on the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in the northern Aleppo...

Authorities in southern India have evacuated thousands of people from low-lying areas after weather experts issued a cyclone warning. Schools and offices were closed and state authorities were on alert Monday in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states as Cyclone Vardah neared India's...

Oil prices shot to their highest levels since mid-2015 on Monday after OPEC and other producers reached their first deal since 2001 to jointly reduce output in order to rein in oversupply and prop up markets. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, soared to $57.89 per...

At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured in fresh airstrikes on opposition-held areas in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. Regime and Russian warplanes carried out several raids on opposition-held neighborhoods in...

A crowd of men rushed through the narrow hallway of Mosul's al-Zahra clinic carrying a slight 10-year-old boy. Yousef Oday's face was covered in blood. A team of doctors quickly gathered around his cot. "What happened to you?" one of the men asked. "I have no idea. I was bleeding on one...

The Syrian regime army and its allies captured Sheikh Saeed district in Aleppo in overnight fighting, a war monitor and a Syrian official said early on Monday, amid the most intense bombardment in days, leaving insurgents in only a tiny pocket of the city. Sheikh Saeed lies in the south...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian NGOs announced the birth of Syrian Civil Society Platform aiming at enhancing freedom, justice, equality, tolerance and pluralism. The platform which was founded in Istanbul in Turkey consists of 11 local platforms in 11 Syrian provinces; 3 in neighboring countries...

(The Guardian)- The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he means to discuss with Donald Trump “various ways” to undo the Iran nuclear deal, after the president-elect moves into the White House next month. “I think what options we have are much more than you think,” Netanyahu...

Syrian rebels have received a U.S.-backed proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians under safe passage guaranteed by Russia, rebel officials said as government forces closed in on Sunday, but Moscow denied a deal had been reached. If the proposal were to be taken up by all sides, it...

(Sky News)- Boris Johnson has been given support from his Saudi Arabian counterpart, who claimed the Foreign Secretary's words on the Saudis' actions in the Middle East were "misconstrued". The row began earlier this month after a video of Mr Johnson speaking at a conference in Rome showed...

Performing Puccini to a rapt New York audience, her soprano voice soaring to the rafters, Lubana Al Quntar may be the last person most Americans would think to be a Syrian refugee. But half-an-hour’s drive from Donald Trump’s campaign headquarters, she and dozens of other classically trained...

 If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments. National police organizations say they'll hold...

Iran signed a $16.6 billion deal for 80 Boeing (BA.N) passenger jets on Sunday and was said to be close to another for dozens of Airbus (AIR.PA) planes to complete what would be the biggest package of firm contracts with Western companies since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The deal...

The United States and Russia on Sunday tabled a proposal to rebels in Aleppo that would offer safe passage from the city for fighters, their families and other civilians, three opposition officials with Aleppo rebel groups told Reuters. The rebel groups in Aleppo have yet to respond to the...

All children in Syria's battered Aleppo are suffering from trauma after enduring some of the worst violence in their country's war, the UN children's agency said on Sunday. "All children in Aleppo are suffering. All are traumatised," Radoslaw Rzehak, UNICEF's field office head in Aleppo,...

A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years. The attack comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fights battles on several fronts....

A Kurdish militant group Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, most of them police, a news agency reported. The claim was made by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), seen as an splinter group of the better-known...