The recapture of the ancient city would mark the biggest single gain for President Bashar Assad since Russia intervened in September.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has become one of China’s biggest foreign policy successes.
The militant was killed during daylight hours in a U.S. special operations raid in Syria, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
Krusteaz and Wafels & Dinges are among the companies offering discounted waffles — sweet, crispy, fluffy waffles — Friday.
At least two connections between Israel and the latest instance of terrorism in Brussels have been established.
The Islamic State group poses a widening threat to East Asian nationals, a report by Japan’s Defense Ministry says, following kidnappings and killings.
Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad El Machnouk launched the investigation after journalist Franklin Lamb claimed he had purchased four Syrian children to save them.
Russia's dispute with Japan over the islands, which the latter considers its territory, has hampered trade ties between the two nations.
The suspect, identified as Reda Kriket, has reportedly been linked to the November 2015 Paris terror attacks mastermind.
The news comes as U.S. officials said that two Americans were among the 31 people killed during Tuesday’s bombings.
The civilians, who were arrested Wednesday, were executed in northern Syria after being convicted in Sharia court.
Kim Dong Chul, arrested in North Korea in October, reportedly committed “unpardonable espionage” for the U.S. and South Korea.
The man was seen on security footage next to Khalid El Bakraoui, the suicide attacker who detonated a bomb in the Brussels metro, a local newspaper reported.
The U.S. Secretary of State, who landed at Brussels airport where one of the attacks occurred, will repeat a U.S. offer to help with the investigation and efforts to fight terrorism.
Two of the three suicide bombers in the terror attacks that killed 31 civilians and wounded 300, Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, were reportedly listed as a “potential terror threat” in U.S. databases.
The cargo vessel with 21 North Korean crew members left for China on Thursday after the lifting of a U.N. embargo and OKs from authorities.
The anti-ship cruise missile YJ-62 can target any vessel within nearly 249 miles of Woody Island, which is a part of the Paracel Islands.
The mysterious disappearance of Hong Kong book seller Lee Bo had prompted concerns about Chinese intervention in the city.
The military launched air raids against outlawed PKK, successfully destroying their “shelters, bunkers and ammunition depots.”
China’s Central Commission of Discipline Inspection said it is investigating Tan Dinghua, former deputy general manager at the state-backed liquor giant, for corruption.
A database of companies doing business in the West Bank amounts to discrimination against Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Authorities on Thursday captured six people linked to Tuesday’s attacks, while French authorities made an arrest in a Paris suburb.
Israel has some of the toughest — and the most successful — airport security operations in the world, and Europe is trying to catch up.
Privacy laws and an incredibly low intelligence budget prevented security officials in Brussels from finding Tuesday's bombing suspects.
Iraqi forces are nowhere near the city. Instead, they are focused on taking back oil fields south of the ISIS stronghold.
Radovan Karadzic was found guilty of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995 after a trial that lasted 497 days.
While most attention is focused on nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, the country also hosts hundreds of thousands of others.
In the past two decades, more than 500 people have died on the continent in attacks against schools, public transit, summer camps and restaurants.
The video, marked with the emblem of the Islamic State group’s propaganda wing, calls supporters to join the fight and flashes through images of the carnage.
The new budget is centered on an oil price benchmark of $38 per barrel and a production level of 2.2 million barrels per day, which is Nigeria’s current output.