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The Russian Foreign Ministry says the United States’ decision to halt talks on a ceasefire in Syria is regrettable. “We regret this decision by Washington to curtail the work of the specialist groups in Geneva to withdraw their experts and to limit contacts only to […]

Yemeni Navy coastal Defense warned on Tuesday every vessel of carrying out any action related to Saudi-led alliance against Yemen, as well as of approaching territorial waters for any reason without taking prior authorization from Yemeni authorities. “For more than a year and a half […]

Religious leader of Fatah al-Sham Front (the newly-formed al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group previously known as the al-Nusra Front) Sheikh Ahmad Salamah Mabrouk, known as Abu al Faraj al Masri, was killed in an airstrike in the Southern territories of Idlib province. Al-Masri, who was known as […]

Sabrina Chang, 30, didn’t know much about the global refugee crisis. “I think I could spit out headlines that I’ve seen, but that’s about it,” she says. But then she found herself — for a moment — in refugees’ shoes. Chang visited Forced From Home, […]

An airstrike Monday killed a senior leader in the Syrian Islamist group that split from al-Qaida earlier this year. Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the group formally known as Jabhat al-Nusra, said Abu al-Farai al-Masri was killed when his vehicle was struck in the northwestern Idlib province. […]

ANKARA, Turkey — Authorities on Tuesday suspended about 12,800 police officers over suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country’s July 15 coup attempt. Meanwhile, a pro-Kurdish television […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he is willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria. Starting in the last years of […]

President Barack Obama’s administration has done its outmost to destroy the atmosphere of trust between Russia and the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday. “The Obama administration did everything to destroy the atmosphere of trust which could foster [bilateral] cooperation,” […]

RABAT, Morocco: Morocco’s Interior Ministry said authorities have detained 10 women linked to the Islamic State group who are suspected of plotting suicide attacks and trying to recruit other women to join the extremists. The ministry said in a statement that the Central Bureau of […]