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Amman: Syrian rebel forces closed in on a town near the Turkish border held by IS militants on Tuesday after seizing numerous villages from the group in the...

Amman/Beirut: Rebels shot down a second Syrian warplane in less than a month on Tuesday and reportedly captured its pilot in an area near Aleppo where heavy...

London/Reykjavik: Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is to step down after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed his...

Baku/Yerevan: Azerbaijan and its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh said they had halted hostilities on Tuesday after four days of intense fighting that...

Washington: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would try to force Mexico to pay for his proposed wall along the US border by blocking...

Diyarbakir: Turkey bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday and declared a curfew in a southeastern town after a rocket attack, as Prime...

Ankara/Lesbos: Turkey is ready to take another 200 migrants deported from the Greek islands on Wednesday, a senior government official said, as it presses...

London: Banks could fall silent on the question of Britain's continued membership of the European Union this month, or run the risk of fines and even...

New Delhi: Taking forward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's suggestion, the government is moving towards evolving a broad consensus on the proposal of...

Hong Kong: A painting by Chinese artist Zhang Daqian sold for nearly $35 million at an auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the most one of his works has ever...