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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly intends to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media revealed Sunday.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned on Sunday that, in spite of the recent positive turn in negotiations with North Korean leaders, the road to denuclearization

China is guilty of "intimidation and coercion" over its military build-up on disputed islands in the South China Sea, the US defence secretary has said.

"He is still alive. It's very astonishing. Now he needs help," the head of the Russian paratroopers' union, Valery Vostrotin, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

The leaders of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group, held a press conference on the imprisonment of Tommy Robinson on 30 May. The MEPs call on the UK Government to release Tommy Robinson immediately. Janice Atkinson, an independent UK MEP and Marcel De

Around 500 demonstrators have marched on Leeds Crown Court to protest the sentence of former EDL leader Tommy Robinson who was last week jailed for contempt of court.

The US President seeks to play down expectations of a quick breakthrough after announcing the June 12 get-together with North Korea's Kim Jong-un is back on.

Italy's president swears in an anti-establishment government, ending a three-month long political stalemate.

Slovenian voters go to the polls this weekend in a parliamentary election expected to produce no clear winner but could see an anti-immigrant party backed by Hungary's firebrand Prime Minister Viktor Orban make strong gains.

Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy was deposed Friday by a no-confidence vote in parliament amid corruption scandals in his center-right The post Spanish Prime Minister deposed. Socialists move in appeared first on DEBKAfile .

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that his government will move to reclaim territory currently held by U.S. troops and their allies

A Russian journalist who was reported to have been killed in Ukraine has shown up at a news conference in Kyiv. Arkady Babchenko

Report: North Korea won't give up nukes but may allow U.S. fast food

Whatever you might think of former English Defense League leader Tommy Robinson,

At least 10 people in Mozambique, a country with around 29 million people, had their heads cut off recently in what is suspected to be an Islamist group attack.

President Macron's commitment to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers within three years remains in place, his government says, even though MPs have thrown out legal moves to

A Japanese navy surveillance aircraft has spotted a suspected Chinese-flagged ship apparently transferring fuel to a North Korean tanker on the open seas, Japan's Foreign Ministry says.

Belgian media say a gunman shot dead two police officers and a bystander in the eastern city of Liege.

Poland offers to pay the U.S. up to $2B for a permanent military base — SASC eyes a NDAA floor debate next month