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Syria's state television reports the operation taking place in Yarmouck, where thousands of Palestinian refugees live.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unification is an idea that moves most Koreans, North and South, on an emotional level.

63 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian coast guard on Monday. Around 1000 migrants have been rescued in the Meditteranean in

Pressed on whether U.S. officials could take North Korea at face value in its talks over denuclearization, Sanders framed the administration's approach as both optimistic and cautious.

An Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 57 people including women and children and wounded 119 outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday in the latest attack on election preparations

Journalist Angel Gahona is among more than people killed in unrest in Nicaragua over social security reforms planned by President Daniel Ortega's government.

Chemical weapons inspectors have left the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria and should have results from any samples within around a week, ITV News understands.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):6:15 p.m.The global chemical weapons watchdog says a team of inspectors has visited the Syrian town of Douma to collect sampl...

North Korea will cease any further nuclear or missile tests and dismantle a major nuclear test site effective immediately, the country's state media said on Friday.

North Korea says it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close nuclear test site, multiple news organizations reported.

Syrian state media says Islamic State militants have agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus.

The U.S. gained an ally in Baghdad after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003, but an alliance of Iran, Iraq, Russia and Syria is growing stronger.

Miguel Diaz-Canel took over as Cuba president Thursday, moving quickly to downplay expectations of change in an island ruled by the Castro family for six decades.

Dozens of Armenians were jailed after trying to block access to the government headquarters. People have taken to the street for a week protesting a decision to make ex-President Serzh Sargsyan the next prime minister

Speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed his upcoming summit with Kim at length during their two-day summit.

In their April 14 statement, the patriarchates of Antioch and all the East for the Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, and Greek-Melkite Catholics said, "The allegations of the USA and other countries that the Syrian army is using chemical weapons and that Syria is a country that owns and uses this

Close to the Syrian regime which it has always viewed as a rampart against the Islamist threat, local church leaders have rarely been so unequivocal. Three patriarchs — two of them Orthodox and the other Catholic — have co-signed a statement strongly condemning the Western air strikes against

The Trump administration is seeking to raise an army of Arab soldiers from Syria's neighboring countries that would take over for American troops and help

Even though US intelligence agencies did not have absolute certainty Syria's regime had used the nerve agent sarin against civilians, the Trump administration still felt there was enough evidence to justify retaliatory strikes last Friday, several int

Syria's U.N. ambassador said a United Nations security team traveled to the Syrian town of Douma ahead of a planned visit by global chemical weapons experts on Wednesday to look into a suspected poison gas attack that sparked a U.S.-led retaliatory st