MOSCOW, RUSSIA- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin said. The...
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- A first group of 127 UN peacekeepers returned Monday to a camp on the Syrian-held side of the Golan Heights, two years after withdrawing amid clashes with...
QUETTA, PAKISTAN, Maaz Khan- At least 52 people died and more than 100 others were injured Saturday in a bomb blast at a remote Sufi shrine in Pakistan, officials said, with the Islamic State group...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Andrew Beatty- Donald Trump's election has thrown key US alliances into doubt, but could it yet destroy the liberal world order and the West as we know it? If you thought...
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, Jo Biddle- The executive body of the global chemical arms watchdog on Friday took the unprecedented step of condemning Syria and Islamic State jihadists for using toxic...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Danny Kemp- The European Union's founders believed its unity would be forged in crisis, but after Brexit and the election of Donald Trump the bloc and the geopolitical order that...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA- Russia's defence ministry on Thursday dismissed as "counterproductive" a request from the United Nations to extend future pauses in fighting to allow aid into rebel-held eastern...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- At least 11 people including four children were killed Thursday in air strikes on rebel-held areas near the Syrian capital, a monitor said. One strike on the besieged town of Douma...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Uncertainty spread across the Middle East following Donald Trump's US election win, with questions hanging over the war against the Islamic State group, the Israeli-Palestinian...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Lachlan Carmichael- The jihadist cell that launched deadly attacks on Paris and Brussels received its orders from "very high" in the Islamic State group command, Belgium's federal...